Leader Board Number of Species?

I did a search looking to see if this question had been answer prior and didn’t find anything. I probably used bad key words. So if this is covered already point me in the right direction please.

I have notices on several projects that either I started or others have started that the leader board numbers are often different. For example in this project: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/wild-duval-county-fl my species observation total says 947. Yet when on click on Your Species just below that it shows 990. Why the difference? If it is something I did wrong how can I tell which ones have a problem? Keep in mind I have almost 11,000 observations so it would be very time consuming to go through them all. I would like to get this done right for me and for iNat.

See https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/how_inaturalist_counts_taxa
Some other forum posts, but there are many others:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/observer-species-count-does-not-match-project-species-count-in-single-observer-project/17518
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/species-count-in-the-user-stats-is-something-else-than-species-count-in-cnc-project-stats/64431

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