Request: In annotations, add Life Stage = Egg for Animal Kingdom Context: Eggs, especially gastropod and insect eggs, can be difficult to identify even within the correct Class. Why this request/change would be helpful: Being able to annotate to egg at the Animal level will help these observatio…

The annotation “egg” is not available at the kingdom level for animals (for example: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/19958006 ) or sometimes at the phylum level within animals. This issue has been raised a couple of times before: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-annotate-life-stage-egg-to…

It’s on the list here! https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/lets-talk-annotations/627

I moved the above two comments to this request and I went ahead and made egg available to Kingdom Animalia except Placentalia. I recently did something similar witih gall, which can now be added to something that’s IDed as “Life”. If anyone knows of families or above that don’t lay eggs which someon…

First of all thanks for expanding where this annotation is available - it helps in a lot of situations. However: the “evidence of presence” annotation allows one to add multiple values, but the “life stage” does not. Why not multiple annotations for life stage? Wouldn’t it be great if one could ann…

[image] schoenitz: allow other people to offer alternatives to annotations beyond just agree/disagree Then we could achieve community consensus, as with CID

thanks! (in mammals, the egg annotation exclusion should be moved from Placentalia up to Theria so it applies to marsupials as well)

I think the reason for this is because an observation is supposed to be for one specific individual organism - allowing multiple life stage annotations would mean that an observation is for multiple organisms since one individual can’t be in multiple life stages at once. There are cases where multip…

Add Annotate: Life Stage: Egg to Kingdom:Animal

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Add Annotate: Life Stage: Egg to Kingdom:Animal

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