Is there a way to get into the Identify section and just see marine species? Available categories do not cover all marine taxa and choosing locations like coasts will obviously return terrestrial species, too.

I think the quickest way to do this would be to join a project that collects only marine observations and ID those. @pisum might have a better way to do this though?

[image] d_gonzalez: Is there a way to get into the Identify section and just see marine species? If I was doing this within the constraints of the website’s UI, I would go to Explore, choose map view, manually select a boundary that encompasses only ocean, then filter for “Identify.”

I guess the replies above are actually helpful, unlike my general comment, which is that this thread reminded me of something that Jason has pointed out in the past, which is that humans have ideas about nature that don’t align with taxonomy. Like “tree”. Or “marine life”. Which are obvious to most …

As a diver, I ended up bulk editing all my marine observations with a “Underwater” tag. I first bulk edited them and added an observation field for those but I don’t recommend it since you can’t explore on the phone app (iPhone at least) for the observation fields (but you can for tags). After doi…

In my opinion, iNat should add places for the various oceans and seas. Currently I could find a place for “Pacific ocean” but that apparently is only a point, or something? (In any case, it doesn’t include observations) I don’t think this is something users can add though, since there is a size lim…

Thanks, everyone! Joining and filtering for projects are great ideas. I understand “marine life” has no taxonomic value as we’d be talking about a taxon’s distribution and not a classification by itself. However, when identifying common molluscs in a certain place, I would like to see taxa with a m…

There’s a feature request for that here: Implement Standard Marine Places for the world’s oceans I also found this thread while searching for that: Underwater creatures category

[image] upupa-epops: There’s a feature request for that here Thanks! +1 Vote :)

Marine observations only

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upupa-epops July 23, 2025, 3:50pm 3

This project was created for that purpose: Worldwide Marine Life needs ID

Here’s the Identify filter for the project: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?project_id=worldwide-marine-life-needs-id

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Create a marine project taxa General question	6	617	June 4, 2019
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Help me create a filter for marine life (wiki) General	49	3788	February 20, 2022
Underwater creatures category General	7	582	May 19, 2025
Implement Standard Marine Places for the world's oceans Feature Requests under-review	30	4721	January 3, 2026

Marine observations only

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