I noticed that the numbers on a taxon page and then the subsequent leaderboard page don’t seem to be equal and I was wondering why. As an example, the home page has txlorax with 3,733 identifications. [Screenshot 2025-12-29 at 19.23.12] but, if you go to the leaderboard, it only has 3,286. [Sc…

The leader board page does have one filter selected, “verifiable” observations, so I think that excludes maybe captive/cultivated observations or ones that have ended up with data issues that will prevent “research grade” status (like missing date or wrong location).

To make things more confusing, the identification counts from the /observations api does not match the identification counts from the /identifications api website txlorax - 3286 count [Screenshot 2025-12-29 at 11.25.42 PM] https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?verifiable=true&taxon_id=81792&v…

Thanks @pisum , I read through that post and it lead me to a couple of other threads (I did search before posting but obviously not well enough). https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/link-to-top-identifiers-of-that-taxon-not-observations-of-that-taxon/7337 https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/only-1-identifi…

Having a top identifier who doesn’t have the most consensus IDs is useful in the case of uncommon taxa that aren’t in the CV yet, I think. At least for plants, most of one of these new-for-iNat taxa tend to be misidentified, because iNat’s CV setup pushes users to choose a species for an initial ID,…

[image] m_whitson: In this case, it can be useful to know who’s been identifying the new thing so that you know who to ask if you think you’ve found one. I guess that’s true if they are identifying it correctly.

[image] norm_shea: txlorax IDed a plant as Sugar Hackberry 3,733 times, but only 3,286 of those IDs ended up having a community consensus ID of Sugar Hackberry almost, but not exactly. it’s not necessarily true that Sugar Hackberry observations that txlorax identified are a subset of observa…

Differences in total numbers for Top Identifiers on two pages

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pisum December 30, 2025, 2:05am 3

see https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/top-identifier-id-number-doesnt-match-in-leaderboard/22620

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Differences in total numbers for Top Identifiers on two pages

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