# Adding an exact taxon to a list

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/adding-an-exact-taxon-to-a-list/64904>\
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**Created:** [May 8, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/adding-an-exact-taxon-to-a-list/64904 "2025-05-08T14:59:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![andershastings](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/andershastings/32/26515_2.png) [@andershastings](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/andershastings)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/adding-an-exact-taxon-to-a-list/64904/1 "2025-05-08T14:59:07Z")

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Hello!

When looking for/organizing things to identify, I like to build a list of all of the taxon I feel confident identifying. I can use a custom search URL to identify species on that list quickly. I would like to add the genus _Oenothera_ to that list, but without calling up observations in a certain section of the genus. Is there a way to add a genus, but exclude a specific daughter taxon from a list? I was thinking of adding all of the daughter taxa within Genus _Oenothera_ to the list that I would like to identify, and then adding the exact taxon Genus _Oenothera_ to the list, to catch the more general ids, while still excluding some of the daughter taxa. I’m not sure there’s a way to add an exact taxon though.

Any help or ideas would be appreciated! :)

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**Author:** ![thomaseverest](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/thomaseverest/32/63220_2.png) [@thomaseverest](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/thomaseverest)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 4:52pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/adding-an-exact-taxon-to-a-list/64904/2 "2025-05-08T16:52:41Z")

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> [@andershastings](#):
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> Is there a way to add a genus, but exclude a specific daughter taxon from a list?

Yes: add `&without_taxon_id=XXXXX` to the URL  
[https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-use-inaturalists-search-urls-wiki/63#heading--multiple--taxa](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-use-inaturalists-search-urls-wiki/63#heading--multiple--taxa)

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**Author:** ![IDfanatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecd19e/32.png) [@IDfanatic](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/IDfanatic)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/adding-an-exact-taxon-to-a-list/64904/3 "2025-05-08T17:40:53Z")

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What Thomas said. It would look something like this:  
[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon\_id=48626&without\_taxon\_id=914082](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=48626&without_taxon_id=914082)  
which would exclude the section of Gauropsis  
you might want to use reviewed=any, too

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**Author:** ![andershastings](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/andershastings/32/26515_2.png) [@andershastings](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/andershastings)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2025, 5:43pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/adding-an-exact-taxon-to-a-list/64904/4 "2025-05-08T17:43:20Z")

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Thank you! That is exactly what I was looking for.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/7/7831452cf7f0d653ff1ffd34176334b7ef1b6a17.png) [@system](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 5:43pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/adding-an-exact-taxon-to-a-list/64904/5 "2025-07-07T17:43:23Z")

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