Help with different count-number of species

[five-birds]

Dear Community,
I observed a difference between the count-number of species i already discovered. On the main “Obeservation-Site” it says i have 88 species observed, in my profil only 59 species are oberved and if i click on species 77 species are observed. See screenshots:

Could someone explain this issue to me ?

BR Dirk

[bug_girl]

Welcome to the forum! I have the same problem. I don’t know why though.

[cmcheatle]

‘Species’ means different things on different pages. It can be very confusing.

Somewhere there is a thread that explains (or at least attempts to) it all, but it is hard to find as searching on the term species gives many results.

Perhaps one of the @forum_moderators who have better knowledge of all the topics can find and link to it .

[jwidness]

I guess there are a few forum threads that mention it, but I think I would start the information on https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/how_inaturalist_counts_taxa.

[bug_girl]

Thanks!

[pisum]

part of the problem might be related to the temporary freeze on life list updates (unless they’ve lifted the freeze early?):

@carrieseltzer

Life Lists will not be updated
Every iNaturalist account has a Life List that is updated asynchronously as your observations change (with variable speed). We’re also aware the Life List updating isn’t perfect and doesn’t do a good job of cleaning up older data as observations are removed or taxa change. This approach has not been scalable as iNaturalist grows, so we’ve been working on a new Life List feature. Stay tuned for more on that. In the meantime, we’ll be temporarily suspending the updates to Life Lists as they currently exist.