Project Species: Total Not Equal to All Categories

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#1

I was wondering why this happens. When I click on the project for ‘Governors Island Wildlife’ I get 600 species. When I count the # of species by category (Aves, Amphibia, Reptilia, Mammalia, Actinopterygii, Mollusca, Arachnida, Insecta, Plantae, Fungi, Protozoa & unknown) I get 591 species. Nine short of the total for the project.

Here are two links for the ‘Governors Island Wildlife’ project:

Thanks!

#2

There are two more iconic taxa that don’t have icons in Explore: Animalia (“other animals”) and Chromista (“kelp, diatoms, and allies”). You can see the icons for these on the observation batch edit page.

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Adding those two will give you the full 600 because there are 9 species in those iconic taxa.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?captive=any&place_id=any&project_id=13859&subview=table&verifiable=any&view=species&iconic_taxa=Animalia,Chromista

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#3

Excellent! Great to know and this resolves the issue. Thanks as always.