Question about categories

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Hello.

A really simple question.

On the website, which category(ies) are invertebrates other than insects and arachnids grouped together (I’m thinking in particular of millipedes, crustaceans, worms, etc.)?

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Did you already look at this page?
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1-Animalia

And there are the arthropods:
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/47120-Arthropoda

Just move down the different ranks.

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i think they mean in this array. there’s arachnids and insects, but where are the other arthropods?

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I see. Seem to be the most commonly observed groups. With the others you have to use the normal search box to find the taxon you are interested in.

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Yes, those broad categories (also known as “iconic taxa” if you want to search for more info) are limited to a few common groups. Everything not in those select groups winds up under the “unknown” category (the grey leaf with question mark) in searches. There are a couple (rather old) feature requests to expand the list:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/make-crustaceans-and-myriapods-iconic-taxa/996
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/create-iconic-taxa-for-bacteria-archaea-and-viruses/1464

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in the system, these are included in the “other animals” iconic taxon group. there’s some relevant discussion here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-additional-taxa-category-buttons-in-the-filter-menu-to-include-taxa-not-in-any-other-category/63293.

if you wanted to filter via the URL, you would use the parameter iconic_taxa=Animalia.

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This is exactly what I’m talking about.

so i believe the request is asking for the additional 2 iconic taxa to be added to the filters in the web Explore and Identify screens.

Generally, I was asking how to get all arthropods and other invertebrates other than insects and arachnids into the filters.

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You could use the &without_taxon_id url parameter to exclude insects (47158), arachnids (47119) and vertebrates (2) from the animals (1), like this:

I think that gets close to what you want, but it does still include observations with IDs that exactly match higher-level taxa that contain the excluded groups. So an observation of a spider with an ID of Subphylum Chelicerata would still match, because that taxon includes a few classes other than Class Arachnida.