# Community ID Subspecies Issue

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/community-id-subspecies-issue/72080>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [October 28, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/community-id-subspecies-issue/72080 "2025-10-28T17:37:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![tesgeorge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tesgeorge/32/10804_2.png) [@tesgeorge](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tesgeorge)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/community-id-subspecies-issue/72080/1 "2025-10-28T17:37:02Z")

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**Platform** :

**App version number** , if a mobile app issue:

**Browser** , if a website issue: Chrome

**URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages**: [https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/323350609#activity\_identification\_cf37a090-43d2-42fc-9e81-4a17179f8920](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/323350609#activity_identification_cf37a090-43d2-42fc-9e81-4a17179f8920)

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**Description of problem** : Community ID is in consensus besides subspecies level ID but observation is still “Needs ID” despite 4 agreeing species level ID “against” one subspecies level ID of the same species. Happened on another observation as well which was corrected by removing subspecies level.

In the past, this would simply cause the observation to go to research grade at the higher taxonomic level (unless IDs were “I don’t know, but I know it is x species), but now it keeps it at Needs ID at the subspecies level.

Unsure if this is a bug or a policy change.

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**Author:** ![spiphany](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/spiphany/32/31332_2.png) [@spiphany](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/spiphany)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/community-id-subspecies-issue/72080/2 "2025-10-28T18:17:42Z")

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See here [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/research-grade-with-only-one-id-at-that-rank/3270/51](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/research-grade-with-only-one-id-at-that-rank/3270/51)

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**Author:** ![bouteloua](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/bouteloua/32/1180_2.png) [@bouteloua](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/bouteloua)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 6:28pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/community-id-subspecies-issue/72080/3 "2025-10-28T18:28:13Z")

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Closed on October 28, 2025, 6:28pm UTC

closing topic to focus ongoing discussion in one location