A taxon not in iNat: what to do?

Go to the page for the parent taxon (genus Lacmellea)

  • On the Taxonomy Tab, click Curation at right
  • Select Flag for Curation
  • Type in a brief reason (“please add Lacmellea standleyi”)
  • Click Flag It!
  • If you have any more information to add, click on the link to the newly created flag near top of page, and add a comment to the flag.

In this case the flag already existed, created by the system because Apocynaceae is currently a locked family, requiring curators to manually add any new taxa. I went ahead and added the species and resolved the flag.

Note that site curators are different from project curators. Site curators are needed for most taxonomic changes, and will be alerted when a taxon is flagged.

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