What’s the preferred/simplest way to edit a scientific name when some aspect of the spelling is in need of changing? So should we ‘Create a new taxon’ (for the revised name) Then do a ‘taxon-swap’ 1-1? (to transfer all from old name to new) Just seems rather convoluted. Here’s my case - https:/…

Flag the species and tag the user who created it (can find that info by clicking edit taxon and scrolling to the bottom of the page), and ask them to directly edit the spelling if they don’t respond, then you need to [image] sjl197: ‘Create a new taxon’ (for the revised name) Then do a ‘taxon…

@ thebeachcomber Lovely - we get there! Just edited without space for user, plus a private message too - seems he was active about a week ago, so given a bit of time, let’s see. @ bouteloua I’ll check, yes, sounds like I’m going to vote on that also - after adding 4 new species, make 3 synonomies …

Editing a species name spelling

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bouteloua December 18, 2022, 12:59am 3

and consider voting/chiming in at https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/allow-taxon-curators-to-edit-taxon-names-reducing-pointless-taxon-changes-for-fixes-like-epithet-ending-changes-or-adding-hybrid-symbols/15050

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Editing a species name spelling

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