In the way the data is handled, does "Research Grade" apply to the community taxon or the observation taxon?

Most observation data exports, such as CSVs and GBIF, list the observation taxon, not the community taxon. The community taxon is available via the API as community_taxon_id.

See related feature request: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/search-by-observation-taxon-or-community-taxon/3620

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