I had a funny thought while looking at my list today. How many taxonomic KINGDOMS did I cover in my local area? FTR, the iNat list of kingdoms: -animalia -plantae -fungi -chromista -protozoa -bacteria -viruses -archaea To my great surprise, I discovered that I have RG observations in all b…

Only the first Kingdom (animalia). I have observed a few plants, but none of them are research grade. Same with fungi. I have no microscope, so the rest haven’t been observed by me yet.

Here’s an old post on the same topic, which everybody here might also find interesting/fun: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/anyone-have-all-eight-kingdoms-gotta-catch-em-all/23744 To be clear, nothing wrong with more conversation on this matter (as far as I’m concerned)! :slightly_smiling_face:

All but Archaea also. Your inquiry reminded me that in previous discussions on this forum of non-monophyletic taxa included in iNat’s taxonomy, we left out Viruses. Replies to this thread: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/list-of-paraphyletic-groups-in-inats-taxonomy/19456 are no long allowed, bu…

Animals, plants, fungi, and one species of bacterium.

I also have everything but archaea.

Awesome! Thanks for that. And I’ve discovered to complete my Kingdom Come challenge, all I need to do is to collect a sample of methane gas from my digestive system and document the presence of methane by igniting the sample. Archaea Kingdom! So close I can almost smell it! (Here, pull my finger)

Thank you, I didn’t realise I had an archaea observation. I now only miss viruses protozoa and bacteria.

Virus: I just shot my positive Covid 19 test result and it made RG. (That’s one observation I hope NEVER to spot again.) Bacteria: there are plenty of bacterial growths that attack plants that have a signature look. I think I found mine using a telephoto on a large infected tree. Protozoa? Slime…

I have slime mould, and Protea Phytoplasma for bacteria Archaea will be difficult this is the only tentative obs for my Cape Peninsula. Broaden the search to Southern Africa and Namibia and this is an interesting obs! I will not achieve 8 out of 8. There are 4 obs for the whole continent of Africa. …

Kingdoms come: how many in your list?

Nature Talk

isopodguy December 29, 2024, 4:01am 3

I’ve got all the ones mentioned besides viruses and archaea.

Topic		Replies	Views
Anyone have all eight kingdoms? (Gotta Catch 'Em All!) Nature Talk	49	2446	June 12, 2021
List of Kingdoms General	4	1588	January 13, 2020
Higher taxa with fewer observations greater than zero Nature Talk	2	256	December 8, 2022
Non-eukaryotic life don't show up well in Dynamic Life Lists Bug Reports web , staff-can-replicate , issue-made	6	449	January 10, 2024
Why isn't "Kingdom Bacteria" shown on the Life taxa page? General question	6	991	November 12, 2023

Kingdoms come: how many in your list?

Related topics