Original title: Did something change to ‘Unknown’ overnight?
Original thread:
Summary
I have a saved Identify url for my home state, which I load up each day for the taxa I am most familiar with. I also check the ‘Unknown’ taxa looking for any observations that don’t have any observations, etc, etc. I am usually able to get this down to 0 unreviewed observations without too much effort, by either offering IDs or marking observations as reviewed.
Overnight, toggling ‘Unknown’ has expanded my Identify parameters to over 200 pages, with 99% of these being unidentified slime molds.
Either these weren’t included before, but now are for some reason, or a prominent slime mold identifier has been removed from the site moving over 200 pages worth of slime molds out of Research Grade.
Has anyone else seen anything similar?
I have changed the name of the thread and hidden the original post, as I realized I had made an error this morning. However, I still stand by the following. I think that there should be more iconic taxa/categories under the filters.
Perhaps it is time for a third row. Just take the six most used subphyla/orders/classes not currently covered by the iconic taxa. Slime molds, crustaceans, myriopods, echinoderms. I don’t know what else is missing…*
The top species identified include woodlice, sea stars, millipedes, crabs, crayfish, and anemones. There are 6.7 million observations from 27,866 species represented in the above link.
If Crustacea was an iconic taxa, that would account for 1.8 million observations of over 9000 species.
Myriopods account for 900,000 from 1,900 species.
Echnioderms 550,000 from 1,600 species.
Cnidarians 790,000 from 2,500 species.
If each of these were new iconic taxa, the new global non-iconic observations would fall to 2.6 million from 12,500 species. I’ve only listed 4 above, so perhaps an ‘Other’ should contain all animal species that don’t fall in the above categories but are not ‘unknown’. Things like springtails, worms, bryozoa, sharks/rays, etc…?
can you provide a screenshot of this, including the URL that shows up at the top of the browser?
it sounds like you just didn’t have Unknown properly selected.
there are 14 iconic taxa, or 13 if you exclude “unknown”. it doesn’t look like you have excluded all of these. particularly, “other animals” includes most of the taxa that you noted.
there are 14 iconic taxa, or 13 if you exclude “unknown”. it doesn’t look like you have excluded all of these. particularly, “other animals” includes most of the taxa that you noted.
