Reporting errors in introduced data

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I have noticed a species is being flagged as introduced in one of its native areas. Who do I contact to report incorrect information for correction? It is the Cane Toad, Bufo marinus, being erroneously reported as introduced in Trinidad and Tobago. Thanks

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welcome to the forum.

see https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/establishment-means-corrections/1780/3. this may be useful as well: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-can-you-get-the-full-list-of-establishment-means-for-a-taxon/15435/22.

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Thanks. So I’ve now edited the Establishment Means for the species in the Trinidad and Tobago checklist to read “Native”. Is that all I need to do?

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i think so. i didn’t see any other establishment records for places that looked like child places or were otherwise related: https://jumear.github.io/stirfry/iNat_taxon_est_means.html?taxon_id=553515.

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I expect the issue is the species being tagged as introduced in the “Lesser Antilles”, which Trinidad and Tobago may be included in by some definitions. The observations from T&T are labelled as “Introduced in the Lesser Antilles” eg https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/195002045

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It is also tagged as introduced in North America, which is not correct as it is said to be native all the way up to Southern Texas. I don’t really want to go messing with large regional attributions myself though, I’d rather an expert on the species did so.

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I’m confident enough to edit the Lesser Antilles Establishment Means to unknown now though, and that appears to have corrected the tags for Trinidad and Tobago now.

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You can create a flag on the Cane Toad (via https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/553515-Rhinella-marina) and tag people to discuss - this is a good general solution if there are cases where extensive/large scale alterations to range (or other statuses) should be considered.

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