A whole class is missing, even it exists in gbif. Can some curator help with it?

hi, i’ve submitted this question on the general forum and the answer was to ask curators to resolve it since i’ts higher than a simple specie.

Here is my copy paste of the original message and references:

hi, i have a similar request, i see that the protozoan taxons are often forgotten, i’m not talking about families or so but bigger, like the Filasterea, which is a whole class, and it exists in gbif, and there are even families and names of species on it and observations. most know specie seems to be Ministeria vibrans, that has even a page in alchetron here with a picture, several other pictures can be seen in researchgate: Ministeria vibrans - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia. it also exist in the worms database: WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Ministeria vibrans Tong, 1997, and here the class Filasterea on worms database: WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Filasterea.

Classe Ichthyosporea · iNaturalist and Classe Microsporidia · iNaturalist at the same level in taxonomy are in inaturalist though. At least it would be usefull to include the regnum, if someone finds one of its not well known species it will know the regnum (page on gbif about the missing taxon: Filasterea.)

At the same time, Classe Haplosporea has 0 observations but the taxon is in inaturalist… it makes no sense for me.

same for the protist class: Anaeromonadea / Preaxostyla

i think it may help people identify the organism they have observed and also less errors of the recognition tool, that could feed on the gbif material / research quality pictures (yes there are even pictures that goes to the specie level).

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This probably means add a flag on iNaturalist for a curator to look at as opposed to posting in the curator forum group.

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I mentioned this in the other thread, but I’m pretty sure that a class level change requires admin-level permissions - most curators aren’t going to have this.

@tiwane sorry to tag you but this feels like something a mod should see.

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Thanks. Happy to take a look at a flag on iNaturalist itself, @sandie43. You can flag the parent taxon on iNaturalist.

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i’ve done it ^^. Hope i did it correctly.

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