Here is a problem we need to address on iNaturalist. Look at taxa 564384 which is Anas × Mareca hybrids in ducks. All eight hybrids listed under this taxon has the genus Mareca is uncapitalized. Example being the Mallard × Gadwall (aka Brewer’s Duck) and it’s scientific name is on iNaturalist is Ana…

OK, this has been implemented (eg https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/564408-Anas-platyrhynchos-×-Mareca-strepera ), but you will have to edit the taxon and the taxon name for it to update.

Don't automatically strip capitalization in scientific names

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"Rules" for hybrid animal taxon names Curators	41	7082	February 3, 2020
Capitalization of common names policy? General	6	3719	March 29, 2019
Differences between Capitalisation of Species Names General	55	13045	November 4, 2019
Scientific names not capitalized properly at rank Genushybrid Bug Reports taxonomy	3	509	February 3, 2020
Consistently Auto-Capitalise across the Website and the App Feature Requests web , android-app , ios-app	1	453	August 14, 2019

Don't automatically strip capitalization in scientific names

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