How can I add a less common taxon to my list?

[amzamz]

If I go to one of my lists, I can use “Add to Your List” to add 1 ot a batch of taxa to my list. Fine. However, the “Find” button will only return a fraction of what there is. Up to 10 items it seems. How can I add a specific taxon which is not on this shortlist? For example: try to add the moth genus “Victoria”! Not the plant (giant waterlilies), but this one https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/551001-Victoria .

Thanks for any help.

[chuuuuung]

See those numbers after “taxa” and before “Victoria”? Try typing 551001 into whatever iNat search field you’re using and see if that works.

[pisum]

you’re sort of stuck here. unless the page is changed, i think you have to either script in the addition via API or edit the page on the fly. here’s how to do the latter:

1. go to your list page
2. click “Add to Your List” and look up any taxon name. select any one of the taxa from the list if more than taxon is returned.
3. now open up your browser’s developer tools, and go to the Elements view in your developer tools. within Elements view, there should be a tool (in the upper left corner in Edge and Chrome) that will allow you to inspect elements. click that tool, and use it to highlight and click the selected taxon from step 2 above. that should bring you to a spot in the HTML code in the Elements that corresponds to the selected taxon element. from there, look a few lines down to find an <input> element with id="listed_taxon_taxon_id". the flow should be something like this:
   
   
4. change the value in the <input> element to your desired taxon id (551001 in this case):
   
   
5. click the add button on the page to add your desired taxon to the list.

[yongestation]

an “add to list”/“add to favorites” button on taxon pages would be nice

[benarmstrong]

Out of curiosity, I tried appending &per_page=100 as shown below and found Oman that way (2nd screenshot near the middle).

Note: victoria should work as well. I accidentally gave this example for the more recent duplicate of this question here rather than on that post: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/taxon-does-not-show-up-in-seach-in-lists/68971

Appending URL arguments like this works, but… I’m not sure if it was intentional for the code to allow it so perhaps is not something that should be relied on. Besides which, it’s kind of hard to see amongst all those results.

So, having discovered that, I tried a slightly more useful variant of this that returns fewer results. I cut-and-pasted from the ray-finned fishes page the id# of the parent taxon of the taxon we’re looking for and appended it as a URL parameter &taxon_id=47178 and sure enough, this is accepted and narrows down the results to fish only:

Finally, I realized that the query terms could be left blank, allowing a direct search of the taxon (and all of its children) by id# by just typing &taxon_id=90450 (i.e. the id# for Oman).

Don’t celebrate yet, though! As I indicated above, if this is a bug and not a feature, this may or may not continue to work in future.

[ncb1221]

Thanks for this! It’s a lot simpler than the previous workaround (even if it might be a bug)