There are a lot of monotypic taxa on iNat, and there are also a lot of observations that get stuck on a monotypic taxa and never get identifyied because the taxon experts go to the subordinate taxon, not the monotypic parent taxon. In my opinion it does not make any sense having identifications be o…

The definition of monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon, so the subclass Equisetidae is a monotypic taxon because the only immediately subordinate taxon that it has is the order Equisetales. Equisetales is also monotypic, and Equisetidae is also mo…

[image] PdFuenteB: The definition of monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon I’ll go along with that definition for purposes of this feature request.

You really made me doubt myself. It is a messy word, I do not know why people use it as a synonym for monospecific or unispecific; or monogeneric or unigeneric. But yes I probably should have started this thread with the definition that I am using for monotypic. Also the linguistic gap does not help…

No worries, I think your meaning is clear enough. We would just have to be clear in defining the taxon checkbox (whatever we name it) as “contains only one taxon at the next lower rank.” Then the system could follow the taxonomic tree to the lowest rank at which only a single name exists.

For the fungi at least we have many monotypic genera but also many more recognizable but undescribed species that can be assigned to those genera. It would be incorrect to automatically re-assign the identification from genus to the described species.

I think it all was described in initial post, each taxa would get that “mark” manually, so only those that match the requirements will be added.

I totally back this idea. There are far too many IDs just stuck at the genus level specifically, and if only one person notices, that ID stays below RG indefinitely.

While I agree in part, I think it should only give priority to the top spot to the native species, but still include others. The reason for this is that non-native organisms are becoming more frequent all the time and just because a creature is supposed to be somewhere, doesn’t mean that’s the speci…

What do you mean by inefficient?

Automatically identify monotypic taxa as the subordinate taxon

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blue_lotus December 31, 2019, 3:01am 29

While you can certainly make the case for taking user education into consideration, I think that opportunity exists without being inefficient about IDing monotypic taxa.

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Automatically identify monotypic taxa as the subordinate taxon

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