Hello! There has been something I have been pondering lately and its the use of the label ‘Endemic’ on inaturalist. I know endemic is often used for species confined to a small geographic range, but on inat it seems to be occasionally used to refer to species found exclusively or almost exclusively …

Native vs Endemic on Inat

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