I often try to restrict my searches to the Caribbean… but doing so results in this . Some tiny sliver of the region has been misleadingly named as the Caribbean. Can this be fixed? Can we get an actual option to search for Caribbean wildlife? That’d be swell. Thanks.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=27.26341195155918&nelng=-59.41749567861399&place_id=any&swlat=9.993000051776924&swlng=-85.17150006593276&taxon_id=47532 Searched Caribbean and that’s the first option. Yours is called Caribbean Sea Costa Rica to southern Jamaica.

Misleading location name in seach

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bouteloua March 8, 2021, 1:57pm 12

You can view the feature request and staff response at https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/implement-standard-marine-places-for-the-worlds-oceans/1458/

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