I wanted to get a list of the complete taxonomy for all iNaturalist plant taxa. Supposedly I can get it from the “iNaturalist Taxonomy DarwinCore Archive” on the developers page . However, while this file does contain a row for every little piece of the taxonomy between family and genus (i.e., tribe…

iNaturalist Taxonomy DarwinCore Archive does not contain tribes, subgenera, etc

tiwane March 2, 2026, 9:51pm 21

Since this technically isn’t a bug, I’ve moved it to General.

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