We have groups of taxonomic ranks that can have the same taxon names, such as a genus and nominate subgenus, or a species complex and species. In many contexts, it is necessary to have the rank accompany the taxon name to distinguish them. When observations are exported, the rank of the ID is not …

resurrecting this thread as I think it’s an important feature to include, it’s causing some hassles surrounding complexes on my end

Totally agree, it’s got my vote!

it’s not a great solution, but you could include the taxon_id field in the export, and that would allow you to disambiguate between different taxa. if you have a separate list of taxa with their ids and ranks, you could even look up rank from that list.

Add ID rank column to exported observations data file

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jeffhansen1 September 18, 2025, 5:18pm 5

I hope this is added. It would be so useful.

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Add ID rank column to exported observations data file

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