This observation appears to have a correct community id, but it is still marked as Unknown: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/3692784

That’s because there are no identifications. There is another thread about these types of observations– https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/obscured-id-chain-in-rg-observations/179

It looks like people interacted with the observation since I posted it here. IIRC it said unknown with a research grade flag above the photo, but under Community Taxon it had the correct id. No id chain was visible at the time.

In this thread @tiwane said it was an iNaturalist indexing issue: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/obscured-id-chain-in-rg-observations/179/14 That’s the last I remember about what the problem may have been.

[3692784] Here’s a screenshot I took before starting this thread. If I see another observation like this again, I’ll let you know.

Research grade Unknown

Bug Reports

Topic		Replies	Views
Observation with identification shows as unknown Bug Reports	5	299	August 14, 2025
Research Grade observation with 0 IDs Bug Reports	2	1053	April 5, 2019
Community taxon agreed on, but observation still needs ID Bug Reports	2	439	February 14, 2021
Unknown observation with "opted-in community taxon" and 1 ID Bug Reports	20	619	December 22, 2025
Obscured ID chain in RG observations Bug Reports	23	1861	June 15, 2019

Research grade Unknown

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