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

Feature Requests

Topic		Replies	Views
"Rules" for hybrid animal taxon names Curators	41	8484	February 3, 2020
Hybrid genus name capitalization is automatically removed Bug Reports web , staff-can-replicate , github-issue-made	22	1119	June 27, 2024
Capitalization of common names policy? General	6	6484	March 29, 2019
Differences between Capitalisation of Species Names General	55	19257	November 4, 2019
Consistently Auto-Capitalise across the Website and the App Feature Requests web , android-app , ios-classic-app	1	477	August 14, 2019

Don't automatically strip capitalization in scientific names

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