I have searched but cannot find what the color codes mean when I look at my list of observations, however, it seems to be based on the following as best as I can tell: blue = vertebrates red = invertebrates pink = fungus/lichens green = plants If this is the color code, then the species Aphelor…

It’s a bit unwieldy, but your observation falls into the scheme the site uses. Red is for Insects and Arachnids – Myriapods fall into the “other animals” category, for which they use blue. Don’t know why…

Here are all the colors that iNaturalist uses and what they generally mean: [27%20PM] Green = Plants Red = Insects, Molluscs, Arachnids, Blue = Ray finned fishes, Birds, Amphibians, Reptiles, Mammals, and “Other Animals” Pink (kind of a Magenta) = Fungi Including Lichens Brown Red = Kelp, Dia…

I think Other animals should be orange, not blue, as most ‘other animals’ are arthropods like all the taa currently coded orange.

Thanks so much to all of you - I’m sorry I didn’t see the map legend as that would have explained it. Perhaps they’ll reconsider the “other animal” category at some point. The little organism icons don’t show up for me except briefly upon loading my observations (and then are replaced with location …

I agree. I was surprised to see other arthropod observations with a blue icon. Orange should be for all invertebrates, IMO, if you’re going to use it for insects, mollusks, and arachnids. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/25743549 (Why would crustaceans have blue icons, when they are more c…

Why would crustaceans have blue icons, when they are more closely related to insects than either arachnids or mollusks? That’s the kind of thing which was bugging me too.

Incorrect color code for a species?

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pisum June 7, 2019, 8:29pm 4

there’s a legend on the Explore map:

i agree about the strangeness of some of the color coding, but it is what it is… i wouldn’t necessarily classify it as a bug though.

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Incorrect color code for a species?

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