# Parentheses around scientific names are sometimes italicized

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/parentheses-around-scientific-names-are-sometimes-italicized/274>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [February 16, 2019, 11:28am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/parentheses-around-scientific-names-are-sometimes-italicized/274 "2019-02-16T11:28:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![colinpurrington](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/colinpurrington/32/58_2.png) [@colinpurrington](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/colinpurrington)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2019, 11:28am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/parentheses-around-scientific-names-are-sometimes-italicized/274/1 "2019-02-16T11:28:57Z")

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In some instances, parentheses around scientific names are rendered in italics (but shouldn’t). First image shows issue, second shows proper format. Small thing but perhaps fixable.

 ![italics](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/1X/2d7299d77a2c6900af3dfe9101fe94587a3f5580.png)

![italics-good](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/1X/7c5323d847c289888f601f131a44dc885e2c029a.png)

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**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 9:33pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/parentheses-around-scientific-names-are-sometimes-italicized/274/2 "2019-02-20T21:33:38Z")

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Can you provide URLs to those two pages?

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**Author:** ![colinpurrington](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/colinpurrington/32/58_2.png) [@colinpurrington](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/colinpurrington)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2019, 11:18am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/parentheses-around-scientific-names-are-sometimes-italicized/274/3 "2019-02-21T11:18:40Z")

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I see issue on all observations, but screenshots above taken from https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/20372396.

I get same behavior on Chrome and Safari so I don’t think it’s a browser rendering bug. Also, if useful for diagnosing … when selecting the lines with mouse, the parentheses are not copied so I assume the “( )” are graphic elements, not text:

 ![50%20AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/1X/68f483528891ac10a376a8731f835b717de6ba07.png)

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**Author:** ![colinpurrington](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/colinpurrington/32/58_2.png) [@colinpurrington](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/colinpurrington)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2019, 11:27am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/parentheses-around-scientific-names-are-sometimes-italicized/274/4 "2019-02-21T11:27:03Z")

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The second graphic on original post (instance where parentheses have normal format) was taken from my Dashboard view. Here’s a larger view of that situation, with text selected to show that the parentheses are just text:

 ![05%20AM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/1X/444d98d5498fb251c6a1c1f9bd938bb23221e7a8.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![tiwane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/tiwane/32/54612_2.png) [@tiwane](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/tiwane)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2019, 12:22am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/parentheses-around-scientific-names-are-sometimes-italicized/274/5 "2019-02-23T00:22:13Z")

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Got it. I’ve made an issue for this.

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**Author:** ![bouteloua](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/bouteloua/32/1180_2.png) [@bouteloua](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/bouteloua)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2019, 2:51pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/parentheses-around-scientific-names-are-sometimes-italicized/274/6 "2019-03-09T14:51:12Z")

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Fixed in:  
[https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/2163](https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/2163)

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**Author:** ![bouteloua](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/bouteloua/32/1180_2.png) [@bouteloua](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/bouteloua)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2019, 2:51pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/parentheses-around-scientific-names-are-sometimes-italicized/274/7 "2019-03-09T14:51:25Z")

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