I am exporting data for incorporation into another (offline) biodiversity database. The Export Observations interface is good but can there be an additional option under Taxon Extras that puts ONLY the specific epithet in a column? If you select the existing option “taxon_species_name”, it produces …

It’s pretty easy to split a cell in Excel. https://support.office.com/en-us/article/split-a-cell-f1804d0c-e180-4ed0-a2ae-973a0b7c6a23

Thanks, that will be easy enough to do! Although I still think having a specific epithet only option in the Taxon Extras would be nice, as it would save everyone a step.

Names are actually entered into the iNaturalist database as “Genus species” or “Genus species subspecies”. There is no separate column of data for just the specific or subspecific epithet. I guess iNat could manually split them into two or three columns on export. But there are definitely some odd …

Export Column for Only Specific Epithet

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Export Column for Only Specific Epithet

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