When looking though my observations it’s easy to use the category filters to see (for example) any bird observations I’ve submitted, or any funguses, etc. But there are some species that don’t fit in any of those categories, for example Pectinatella magnifica, and also several millipedes I’ve observed. How do I filter to see my observations of those species? The “unknown” filter doesn’t show these (though it does show my observation of Nostoc commune, which I also don’t understand, I guess bacteria belong there).
You can put higher taxa in the search box at the top. For instance, Bryozoa will find all of the child taxa of that parent taxon, including Pectinatella.
You can use the url parameter taxon_id= to search for multiple taxa of different ranks/genera at the same time.
For example, if I wanted to look at all observations in Eristalini and Volucellini and identify them, I’d use the parameter taxon_id=364082,479390 added on to https://inaturalist.org/observations/identify?.
Thank you everyone! Especially @jwidness and @bouteloua for the really helpful answers!
I’d love to see filters added in that original place for Other Animals and Kelp, Diatoms, and Allies too. I think that would have prevented my initial confusion. I guess maybe that belongs as a feature request.
I thought this might be useful. The twelve iconic groups do not cover all species on iNaturalist. Kingdom Chromista is missing (Kelp etc). In the animal kingdom, most is covered. So I included the animal kingdom and subtracted the vertebrates, insects, arachnids and mollusks.
The URL is set for observations on the Canadian version of iNaturalist. This can be changed to your preference as can the location and other things.
Chromista is actually an iconic taxon within iNat, along with “Other Animals”, although it’s not represented in all interfaces with its own button (presumably because 12 icons have more flexible layout options than 14):
i’m not entirely sure what you were trying to accomplish with your query, but maybe you just need to use one or more of the less-obvious-how-to-access iconic taxa to get what you need.
The numbers would suggest you have caught over 96% of such obs, indeed. As of this moment, there’s 152,638,111 verifiable observations of which 149,635,564 are in the 12 iconic groups, so by subtraction 3,002,547 are not – which is pretty close to 2,897,539, the total for your search.
