Platform: web App version number, if a mobile app issue: Browser, if a website issue: URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/317212604 Screenshots of what you are seeing: Description of problem: I think there is a bug in the new …

Thanks a lot for your explanations, this makes things far clearer. In fact, this was not an issue for me to have a title that disagrees with the CID when considering taxonomic levels higer than species level and the last ID is at the lowest level, as in the crab example. What I found confusing (but …

ID RG species vs subpecies

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jwidness November 1, 2025, 8:12pm 12

I’m going to close this – if anyone wants to continue discussions, please use https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/research-grade-with-only-one-id-at-that-rank/3270

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ID RG species vs subpecies

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