Editing Common Names for Consistency

A common name - as in - a name which is in common usage - part of oral history SHOULD be on iNat so people can search for it.

We can add up to 3 languages for common names. Where I ID in South Africa, I use English and Afrikaans - that helps me when an observer has a placeholder, another clue to get to what they think they saw.

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/you-can-now-choose-up-to-three-common-name-lexicons-to-view-at-once/46446

My iNat is set to default to show the scientific name first.

PS collem is also 6 letters and will get you to Collembola (springtails is a common name ;~)

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