I hope my title isn’t confusing - I didn’t know how to concisely word this feature request.
I prefer to see scientific names over common names for observations and identifications. Recently, I hid common names entirely and like it this way. But, when common names are disabled, all taxonomic info is also removed. Here’s an example, using the same identifications on the same observation.
This first photo is when common names are shown. Below the species ID it says “a member of Family Primulaceae (Primroses)”. This is really handy when I’m unfamiliar with a genus or species and can see which family it’s in without going to its respective page.
That definitely sounds to me like unintentional behavior. I don’t know if it’s possible to reclassify this post as a Bug Report, but that’s what I would do.
Just following up, it isn’t a bug, it’s intentional. Basically we search up the tree for the nearest taxon containing a common name (eg Primulaceae) and add it. Since you have turned off common names, there is not containing taxon which has a common name.
So it’s something we can implement, but we need to know:
would you want to see the common name here, or just see a containing taxon’s scientific name?
we would probably have to arbitrarily pick a rank to display - does family work?
