diff --git a/src/js/views/eva-variant-view.js b/src/js/views/eva-variant-view.js
index b6cba1e9..6f56aee0 100644
--- a/src/js/views/eva-variant-view.js
+++ b/src/js/views/eva-variant-view.js
@@ -640,7 +640,8 @@ EvaVariantView.prototype = {
             accessioningServiceData.assemblyAccession :
             accessioningServiceData.referenceSequenceAccession;
 
-        var speciesInfo = _.findWhere(getAccessionedSpeciesList(), {assemblyAccession : this.assemblyAccession});
+        var speciesInfo = _.findWhere(getAccessionedSpeciesList(),
+            {assemblyAccession : this.assemblyAccession, taxonomyId: accessioningServiceData.taxonomyAccession});
         this.species = speciesInfo.taxonomyCode + "_" + speciesInfo.assemblyCode;
     },
 
diff --git a/tests/acceptance/variant_browser.js b/tests/acceptance/variant_browser.js
index 954b1266..c30ff1f6 100644
--- a/tests/acceptance/variant_browser.js
+++ b/tests/acceptance/variant_browser.js
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ function variantSearchByGene(driver){
         });
         driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='variant-browser-grid-body']//table[1]//td[2]/div[text()]")).getText().then(function(text){
             text = parseInt(text);
-            chai.assert.operator(text, '>=', 32884617);
+            chai.assert.operator(text, '>=', 32884613);
             chai.assert.operator(text, '<=', 32973805);
         });
     });