diff --git a/R/globals.R b/R/globals.R
index 51acb22b..e34d774b 100755
--- a/R/globals.R
+++ b/R/globals.R
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ globalVariables(c(".",
                   "shortname",
                   "species",
                   "species_id",
+                  "subspecies",
                   "trade_name",
                   "transmute",
                   "tsn",
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-data.R b/tests/testthat/test-data.R
index 291106d5..5e229011 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-data.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-data.R
@@ -69,5 +69,6 @@ test_that("creation of data sets is valid", {
 })
 
 test_that("CoL version info works", {
- expect_equal(class(catalogue_of_life_version()), "list")
+ expect_identical(class(catalogue_of_life_version()),
+                  c("catalogue_of_life_version", "list"))
 })
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-mo_history.R b/tests/testthat/test-mo_history.R
index a0a6daf3..1cf799e1 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-mo_history.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-mo_history.R
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ test_that("mo_history works", {
                               force = TRUE),
                "B_ESCHR_COL")
 
-  expect_equal(as.character(suppressWarnings(as.mo("testsubject"))), "B_ESCHR_COL")
+  expect_equal(as.character(as.mo("testsubject", allow_uncertain = TRUE)), "B_ESCHR_COL")
 
   expect_equal(colnames(read_mo_history(force = TRUE)),
                c("x", "mo", "uncertainty_level", "package_version"))