The observation taxon is the ID that displays in all search results and at the top of the observation detail page. The community taxon is the smaller ID on the right side of only the observation detail page. It is the observation taxon that appears as the label throughout the website, not the commun…

Yes, definitely yes. (Let’s see if I can find a vote somewhere…)

Anything at all that would improve visibility of the community taxon would help. One thing that I think particularly makes things confusing (even to those of us who have used iNat quite a bit) is the placement of the Research Grade badge on the observation taxon, not the community taxon. That visual…

This has been added to the our in-house doc for a revamped explore page. Doesn’t guarantee it will be eventually implemented, but there won’t be any further movement on it until we do rewrite the page. So if you want to close this request, go for it.

I don’t think this has a ton to do with the taxon page, for me it’s mostly related to Explore and Identify. I’m happy with the current system to keep feature requests open until they’re implemented or intentionally not being moved forward on.

Whoops, meant explore. Updated my post.

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Feature Requests

Topic		Replies	Views
Which ID of an observation is exported to GBIF? General	9	997	December 3, 2023
Community versus Observation Taxon? General question	7	2208	July 5, 2019
Add New Export Taxon To Solve All (?) of the Problems With Research Grade Feature Requests web	8	514	January 20, 2026
In the way the data is handled, does "Research Grade" apply to the community taxon or the observation taxon? General question	9	473	October 1, 2024
Community taxon disagrees with itself Bug Reports	3	239	May 3, 2023

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