I read that you can add common names to taxons on the taxonomy page of a taxon. However, I can’t seem to find the button to do that. Is the information that regular users can add names out of date or is the way of doing that just very sneaky? For reference, I use the Finnish node of iNat ( inaturali…

If it is like other parts of the website, you might need an account 30 days old, a verified email, and 50 verifiable observations. So if you just add 6 more observations that might do it. But yes it would be nice for that to be clearly stated somewhere, as I think it is a newish policy.

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/42113-Pecari-tajacu Just below the pictures of quenks and the chart of how many quenks are observed each month, there’s a row of tabs. Make sure the taxonomy tab is selected. On that tab, there’s an indented list going all the way from Animalia to Pecari tajacu, fo…

I suspect your account doesn’t have quite enough observations for the ability to add common names to be enabled.

Oh well. I’m more of an identifier so hopefully the threshold isn’t too far away.

The button isn’t there for me so presumably it is as bouteloua said.

@tiwane if so - could you edit your tutorial please ?

The exact requirements were intentionally not posted as there was an issue with repeated inappropriate content among a series of users.

To be clear, you will be able to add common names which have been published or listed elsewhere in the literature. Common names should not be invented on iNaturalist.

Can't find the button for adding common names

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DianaStuder January 23, 2026, 7:17am 5

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-to-add-a-common-name-to-a-taxon/9792

tiwane’s tutorial says ‘any user can add a common name’ He has screenshots there.

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Can't find the button for adding common names

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