Invalid picture showing as main image

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Browser, if a website issue:Chrome

URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/100128-Epinephelus-polystigma
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/100128-Epinephelus-polystigma

Screenshots of what you are seeing:

Description of problem:

The main picture of this fish is not valid. If you look at the actually sighting: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/262871688 you find out that is actually a different grouper.
Why is this image showing as an example if it is not valid?

Welcome to the forum!

This is not a bug. Please see:

https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/solutions/articles/151000170377-the-taxon-photo-is-wrong-how-does-this-get-fixed-

and

https://help.inaturalist.org/en/support/solutions/articles/151000184018-what-guidelines-should-i-follow-when-choosing-taxon-photos-

If you go to that taxon page – click Curation – then click Edit photos. You can change it.
That picture was initially at the ‘right’ ID, but has since been corrected – someone who notices it is now wrong, can correct it.

Your choices however are thin. 2 pictures of dead fish. The artwork is from Wikimedia Commons not an iNat obs. And that caption says australis, so also the wrong sp ? More digging – australis is a synonym. Tick

Moved to General, since this isn’t a technical issue.

There was a request some time ago to highlight taxon images that don’t match the taxon (45 votes), but it does not appear to have been taken forward yet: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/flag-or-otherwise-mark-taxon-photos-whose-cid-doesnt-match-taxon/4556

From that thread iNat should be automatically removing pictures like the fish obs that started this thread. Or was that under discussion but never happened ?

Perhaps @tiwane can give us an update?