If this is the wrong place to ask, please move it. Should a taxon be flagged if there are disagreements among identifiers as to the correct taxonomy? Over the past few days, one IDer has been going through observations identified as Anolis distichus and changing them to various species recently segregated, such as Anolis dominicensis, Anolis ignigularis, and so on. Then, a day or two later, another identifier has been going through them and changing them all back. When asked, this one says that there is insufficient evidence to support elevating these to species. The end result is that all are stuck at Genus Anolis, which is not useful for understanding the lizard diversity of the island. Is this a curational issue, or something else? Should the disputed species be designated as some infrageneric group, given that they were all segregated from one species?
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