# (closed) Displayed taxa name not updating on specific observation

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/closed-displayed-taxa-name-not-updating-on-specific-observation/26192>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Tags:** web\
**Created:** [September 8, 2021, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/closed-displayed-taxa-name-not-updating-on-specific-observation/26192 "2021-09-08T17:20:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![markg729](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/markg729/32/10225_2.png) [@markg729](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/markg729)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/closed-displayed-taxa-name-not-updating-on-specific-observation/26192/1 "2021-09-08T17:20:59Z")

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**Platform** (Android, iOS, Website): web

**Browser** , if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : Safari

**URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages**: [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/94031593](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/94031593)

**Description of problem** (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.):

Step 1: Go to linked observation

Step 2: At the top of the page the observation is shown as Lomatium despite one ID as Lomatium and a second ID as Lomatium triternatum var. anomalum. Typically a genus ID followed by a species ID will change the displayed name to the species ID.

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**Author:** ![marina\_gorbunova](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/marina_gorbunova/32/31454_2.png) [@marina\_gorbunova](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/marina_gorbunova)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/closed-displayed-taxa-name-not-updating-on-specific-observation/26192/2 "2021-09-08T17:35:47Z")

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Ids lower than species level don’t change community taxon. [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/leading-subspecies-ids-should-change-the-obs-taxon-like-leading-ids-of-other-ranks/139](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/leading-subspecies-ids-should-change-the-obs-taxon-like-leading-ids-of-other-ranks/139)

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**Author:** ![markg729](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/markg729/32/10225_2.png) [@markg729](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/markg729)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/closed-displayed-taxa-name-not-updating-on-specific-observation/26192/3 "2021-09-08T17:51:39Z")

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Ah thanks!

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**Author:** ![jwidness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jwidness](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jwidness)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 6:34pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/closed-displayed-taxa-name-not-updating-on-specific-observation/26192/4 "2021-09-08T18:34:34Z")

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Closed on September 8, 2021, 6:34pm UTC


