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You could remove the image from the inactive taxon? Especially since the exact same image is being used for the active taxon. One of them must be wrong.

I don’t think inactive taxa are removed from the CV until the next update?

I just removed the one available image from taxon page for the inactive Cordilura adusta. On the cited observation, the CV still suggests that ID, but it may take time for that photo removal to cycle through–maybe for the next CV training.

I have had the same problem when a subspecies was removed and a new species was added, but both had the same pictures. My temporary solution was removing the picture from the inactive taxon, but I think the bigger issue is the similar photo update drawing from subspecies photos.

This is a 9-month-old taxon change, and one for a species that’s never been in the CV. I don’t think any kind of lag is responsible. I’m sure there are lots of inactive taxa inside genera (left over from every genus split that’s ever happened), which are hard to find even if you’re looking for them…

Does this point to the need to make a Feature Request that Inactive Taxa be excluded from consideration or outputs by CV? I’m not a programmer, so I don’t know how complex that action might be.

here ’s another just-flagged example of what sounds like the same issue (photos of inactive taxa, in this case Calonectris diomedea borealis, being brought up as similar photos); i’ve encountered the same thing recently with a photo of the inactive Sula leucogaster brewsteri being displayed for Sula …

another instance here https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/148265641 - the photo showing up for Campylorhynchus rufinucha is the same photo showing up for the recently-split C. capistratus, from a now-inactive subspecies of the former

New CV image matching selects photos from inactive taxa

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bouteloua July 16, 2025, 2:30pm 10

Closing to focus the discussion at this feature request that would change the way this works: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/do-not-display-photos-from-inactive-taxa-in-computer-vision-results/67506

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New CV image matching selects photos from inactive taxa

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