Not sure whether this is a bug report or a feature request as it has been the situation since the ‘unknown’ iconic taxa was introduced. I’m sure it has been discussed before, but it is still annoying :-) When filtering observations for the iconic taxa ‘Unknown’, observations identified with any ba…

There are not a just few observations: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&subview=table&taxon_id=67333&view=species There are 3415 observations of 159 species of Bacteria. I guess it is so low because many people dont know that they can post diseases (or more strictly disease s…

Non-iconic taxa appear under unidentified/unknown observations

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kiwifergus March 13, 2019, 4:54am 3

We might be seeing a lower number of observations with an NZ filter applied by default

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Non-iconic taxa appear under unidentified/unknown observations

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