On Chrome, the parenthesis on scientific names are sometimes misplaced. If I manually refresh the page, it fixes itself and will not happen again within that tab. Kind of a weird one! Have not seen it in Safari or other browsers yet. Conditions for replication are as follows. On an observation, it …

i think this was fixed last week: https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/pull/5019

I don’t know if it’s related to iNaturalist in general being a lot slower for me lately.

I can replicate in Chrome, but not in Firefox.

I saw this last week on one observation when I reloaded it and the CID had changed due to my ID. But I didn’t see it again and figured it was a fluke.

Maybe not relevant, but I have my pages set to display scientific name first, followed by the English common name in parens. I haven’t seen the misplaced parentheses in this format. Chrome Version 149.0.7827.197 (Official Build) (arm64) on a Mac.

This happens sometimes to me on Microsoft Edge. [image]

Platform: Desktop Browser, if a website issue: Chrome Screenshots of what you are seeing: Example 1: [Screenshot 2026-06-11 142134] [Screenshot 2026-06-11 142145] Example 2: [Screenshot 2026-06-11 142907] [Screenshot 2026-06-11 142920] Description of problem: Updating community taxon on an …

I’ve also noticed this today on some taxa pages; however, refreshing the page fixes it.

Consolidated the threads to this one.

Scientific name formatting broke overnight?

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rynxs June 29, 2026, 5:05pm 8

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/adding-species-rank-id-to-observation-above-species-rank-causes-auto-parentheses-to-display-incorrectly/80028/2

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Scientific name formatting broke overnight?

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