Hello,
I have a project (Hybrid Mammals) and I would like to add some taxa to automatically be included but to NOT restrict other additions. Like I want to have the 900+ observations of Common × Black-tufted-ear Marmoset Callithrix jacchus × penicillata etc. (and likewise for all species I know about) but I don’t want people to only be able to add taxa on the list because there are lots of hybrids out there that I don’t know about. Is this possible? As far as I can tell, if I make a list, the project is restricted to only the taxa present on the list. If not, is this something the programmers can consider? I have seen this type of issue with other projects. Thanks.
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It’s not possible to both automatically add observations of known hybrid taxa and also let people manually add observations of other not-yet-known-to-you hybrid taxa in one project, no.
You can get the list of all hybrid mammal taxa present on iNaturalist by downloading https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/inaturalist-taxonomy.dwca.zip and extracting the names from taxa.csv. Then you could create a collection project that automatically adds obervations of all of those. If a new hybrid taxon is added to iNat, you can easily update the project to add the new taxon.
List of genushybrid, infrahybrid, and hybrid mammal taxa on iNat
Atelerix albiventris × Atelerix algirus
Balaenoptera musculus × physalus
Bison × Bos
Bison bison × Bos taurus
Bison bonasus × Bos taurus
Bos grunniens × taurus
Bos taurus taurus × indicus
Callithrix aurita × flaviceps
Callithrix aurita × jacchus
Callithrix aurita × jacchus × penicillata
Callithrix aurita × penicillata
Callithrix flaviceps × geoffroyi
Callithrix flaviceps × penicillata
Callithrix geoffroyi × jacchus × penicillata
Callithrix geoffroyi × penicillata
Callithrix jacchus × penicillata
Camelus × Lama
Camelus dromedarius × Lama glama
Capra aegagrus × hircus
Cervus canadensis × elaphus
Cervus elaphus × nippon
Connochaetes gnou × taurinus
Damaliscus pygargus phillipsi × pygargus
Equus asinus × caballus
Equus asinus × quagga
Equus caballus × quagga
Equus caballus × zebra
Equus grevyi × quagga
Equus quagga burchellii × chapmani
Erinaceus roumanicus × Erinaceus europaeus
Eulemur cinereiceps × rufifrons
Eulemur collaris × rufifrons
Eulemur coronatus × macao
Felis × Leptailurus
Felis × Prionailurus
Felis catus × Leptailurus serval
Felis catus × lybica
Felis catus × Prionailurus bengalensis
Felis catus × silvestris
Giraffa giraffa angolensis × giraffa giraffa
Hylobates lar × pileatus
Loxodonta africana × cyclotis
Lutra cinerea × perspicillata
Macaca fascicularis × mulatta
Nasalis × Trachypithecus
Odocoileus hemionus × virginianus
Ovis gmelini × vignei
Panthera leo × tigris
Papio anubis × cynocephalus
Phodopus campbelli × sungorus
Pseudorca × Tursiops
Pseudorca crassidens × Tursiops truncatus ×
Sapajus libidinosus × nigritus
Semnopithecus johnii × priam
Trachypithecus melamera × popa
Depending on what your goal is, a project may not be necessary as you can just search for observations at rank=hybrid: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?rank=hybrid&iconic_taxa=Mammalia
You could also create a list of taxa to include all hybrid ranks, e.g. https://www.inaturalist.org/lists/4552571-Hybrid-mammals and use that to search for observations of taxa that are on the list: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?list_id=4552571
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That is some good information and helps answer a good portion (it would be nice to be able to manually add in addition to lists) although it does not help when there are new hybrids not yet on iNaturalist. Thank you!
Also, how do you search for rank=hybrid (for other taxa)?
I just type that right into the URL (more about constructing URLs beyond what’s available in the filters here: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/search+urls)
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