# Most gazapatonic misidentification? **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [September 28, 2025, 2:20am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-gazapatonic-misidentification/70819 "2025-09-28T02:20:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![phma](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/phma/32/54376_2.png) [@phma](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/phma)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 2:20am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-gazapatonic-misidentification/70819/1 "2025-09-28T02:20:57Z")
A year or two ago, there was a spate of French speakers identifying things they didn’t know as “inconnu”, which happens to be the common name of a certain fish. I’ve recently been browsing disagreements, and I’ve found these: - A jay (a corvid) was misidentified as scad (a fish) which is called “jay” in Wolof. - Someone found a beetle which she thought was a ladybug and typed in “catarina”, which also happens to be a word for a kind of mantis shrimp. Do you look for disagreements and try to resolve them? Have you seen an ant misidentified as a moose, or anything similar? (Mods, is it OK to post the URLs of the obs?) ---
**Author:** ![jfmantis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/jfmantis/32/58242_2.png) [@jfmantis](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/jfmantis)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 2:41am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-gazapatonic-misidentification/70819/2 "2025-09-28T02:41:35Z")
The never-observed Peruvian millipede genus _Inconus_ is sometimes posted by Francophones for the same reason. Caterpillars from northeastern Spain are occasionally identified as the rare Ichneumonid wasp genus _Eruga_, since that means caterpillar in Catalonian. ---
**Author:** ![david99](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/david99/32/21841_2.png) [@david99](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/david99)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 2:44am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-gazapatonic-misidentification/70819/3 "2025-09-28T02:44:11Z")
I fairly frequently accidently identify Anna’s Hummingbird as genus _Anna,_ and have to edit my ID immediately afterwards ---
**Author:** ![dlevitis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/dlevitis/32/21743_2.png) [@dlevitis](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/dlevitis)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 3:13am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-gazapatonic-misidentification/70819/4 "2025-09-28T03:13:35Z")
What does “gazapatonic” mean? I’ve never encountered this word before and it gets zero hits on Google. ---
**Author:** ![bradbarnd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/bradbarnd/32/61391_2.png) [@bradbarnd](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/bradbarnd)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 3:18am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-gazapatonic-misidentification/70819/5 "2025-09-28T03:18:54Z")
There is a bird (Porzana carolina) whose common name is Sora. I’ve seen it misidentified as Sora, which is a genus of beetles. ---
**Author:** ![silversea\_starsong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7c8e57/32.png) [@silversea\_starsong](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/silversea_starsong)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 3:21am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-gazapatonic-misidentification/70819/6 "2025-09-28T03:21:26Z")
For a long time we had butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) labelled as a specific fish, that had a nickname “Lepidop”, since removed. The auto selection loved to choose this fish when you entered that name as the first result. ---
**Author:** ![sedgequeen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/sedgequeen/32/1928_2.png) [@sedgequeen](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/sedgequeen)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 3:44am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-gazapatonic-misidentification/70819/7 "2025-09-28T03:44:17Z")
Recently we had an interesting series of ID’s on a simple land plant. (#2 is correct) 1st (me): Honewort, Cryptotaenia (a flowering plant, not even spelled quite the same) 2nd: Hornworts, Anthocerotophyta (a Bryophyte, not a flowering plant) 3rd: Hornwort, Ceratophyllum demersum (a flowering plant) ---
**Author:** ![twainwright](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/twainwright/32/304_2.png) [@twainwright](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/twainwright)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 4:38am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-gazapatonic-misidentification/70819/8 "2025-09-28T04:38:58Z")
> [@dlevitis](#): > > What does “gazapatonic” mean? From Spanish: [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gazapatón](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gazapat%C3%B3n) ---
**Author:** ![DianaStuder](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/dianastuder/32/43358_2.png) [@DianaStuder](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/DianaStuder)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 7:36am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-gazapatonic-misidentification/70819/9 "2025-09-28T07:36:28Z")
so nothing to do with Gaza - the place - from which we get the word _gauze_. We have 850 sp of [Erica](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/55776-Erica) in the Western Cape, but they used that for a handful of [spiders](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/420353-Erica). You can find plenty more among the 22K [Kingdom Disagreements](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?lrank=stateofmatter&ident_taxon_id=47126&place_id=any) ---
**Author:** ![justyna\_kierat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/justyna_kierat/32/14625_2.png) [@justyna\_kierat](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/justyna_kierat)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 9:46am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-gazapatonic-misidentification/70819/10 "2025-09-28T09:46:10Z")
A few times, I identified a bee as an orchid. Both have the same scientific name of the genus: _Stelis_. ---
**Author:** ![Ajott](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/ajott/32/7397_2.png) [@Ajott](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/Ajott)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 10:12am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-gazapatonic-misidentification/70819/11 "2025-09-28T10:12:03Z")
I mixed up those two [https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/148397-Telamonia](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/148397-Telamonia) [https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1151842-Telamonia](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1151842-Telamonia) ---
**Author:** ![phma](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/phma/32/54376_2.png) [@phma](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/phma)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 11:19am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-gazapatonic-misidentification/70819/12 "2025-09-28T11:19:22Z")
Has anyone mixed up a [North Carolinian plant](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/52661-Dionaea) with its [Eurasian prey](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1156210-Dionaea)? ---
**Author:** ![fubberpish](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/fubberpish/32/26517_2.png) [@fubberpish](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/fubberpish)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 12:40pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-gazapatonic-misidentification/70819/13 "2025-09-28T12:40:01Z")
I recall seeing an observation of a grass originally identified as the fish genus _Brama_, I don’t recall what the grass was called but it was spelled very similarly to _Brama_ so it’s likely what the identifier was trying to input. If anyone more familiar with plants than I knows of a grass that is spelled similar to _Brama_, please let me know so I can refind the observation! ---
**Author:** ![sedgequeen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/sedgequeen/32/1928_2.png) [@sedgequeen](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/sedgequeen)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 2:19pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-gazapatonic-misidentification/70819/14 "2025-09-28T14:19:42Z")
Grama? It’s a common name, though. ---
**Author:** ![nyrkes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/nyrkes/32/49061_2.png) [@nyrkes](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/nyrkes)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-gazapatonic-misidentification/70819/15 "2025-09-28T14:36:13Z")
[Mis-identifying pigs as magpies](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?ident_taxon_id_exclusive=891696,42126&place_id=any&verifiable=any) is weirdly common occurrence. Also, I think I have sometime mixed up _[sääkset](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/200958-Pandionidae)_ and _[sääsket](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/154259-Nematocera)._ ---
**Author:** ![phma](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/phma/32/54376_2.png) [@phma](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/phma)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-gazapatonic-misidentification/70819/16 "2025-09-28T15:36:04Z")
> [@DianaStuder](#): > > You can find plenty more among the 22K [Kingdom Disagreements](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?lrank=stateofmatter&ident_taxon_id=47126&place_id=any) I found in there a dicot misidentified as the flatfish _Citharus linguatula_, which is called «feuille» in French, which means “leaf”. > [@nyrkes](#): > > [Mis-identifying pigs as magpies](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?ident_taxon_id_exclusive=891696,42126&place_id=any&verifiable=any) is weirdly common occurrence. The magpie is called “pig” in Breton. ---
**Author:** ![mazancourt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/mazancourt/32/361_2.png) [@mazancourt](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/mazancourt)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-gazapatonic-misidentification/70819/17 "2025-09-28T15:38:51Z")
Very often people misspell the plant genus _Artemisia_ as _Artemesia_, which happens to be a shrimp genus. ---
**Author:** ![matthewvosper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/matthewvosper/32/12194_2.png) [@matthewvosper](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/matthewvosper)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 3:44pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-gazapatonic-misidentification/70819/18 "2025-09-28T15:44:44Z")
I, and numerous others, have been caught identifying hoverflies in the genus Melanogaster as fungi of the same name. The most annoying one for me is how often the uploader picks up Coccinellid names of the form ‘X-spot ladybird’ from my file names, and interprets it as ‘Spot Croaker’, an east coast North American fish… I have identified many of my own ladybird observations as fish in this way… :p Also, I definitely intend to regularise the word ‘gazapatonic’ :) ---
**Author:** ![arboretum\_amy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/arboretum_amy/32/2328_2.png) [@arboretum\_amy](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/arboretum_amy)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-gazapatonic-misidentification/70819/19 "2025-09-28T16:06:55Z")
I’ve been known to select Pseudagrion microcephalum (a damselfly) instead of Pseudognaphalium microcephalum (a plant) ---
**Author:** ![scottdwright](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/scottdwright/32/63396_2.png) [@scottdwright](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/scottdwright)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-gazapatonic-misidentification/70819/20 "2025-09-28T16:08:00Z")
If one is flying along with identifications for Deer in North America and going to ssp. beware of the drop down selection for Columbian Black-tailed Deer (as my meant-to-be choice) and yet Columbian Black-capped Chickadee is ready to sneak in there (like auto-fill) Columbian Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus ssp. fortuitus - as the ID. It’s happened to me enough (and to a few others). You hear back quick enough about the WT… ? [Next page](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/most-gazapatonic-misidentification/70819.md?page=2)