In the old taxon search area, we can find inactive taxa: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/search?is_active=any&q=corycium&utf8=✓ In the newer header search area, there’s no way to search for inactive taxa: https://www.inaturalist.org/search?q=corycium&source[]=taxa One of many little things that would help improve taxonomic curation on iNat.

Yeah it’s definitely an obscure thing but seems like a no brainer to at least display this for curators on the new search. Shouldn’t the old style taxon search be deprecated at some point?

I think it is very useful, and sometimes essential, to see inactive taxa. We dont need it visible or an on-screen option. So long as the old taxon search area remains, that is OK. However, if the the taxon page is going to be deprecated, then we need a replacement.

I just ran into this. Typing any taxon in the search bar brings up suggestions for what the current equivalent taxon is. Searching for eudicots shows angiospermae. Searching for a taxon that’s been dropped, doesn’t do this, however. E.g. https://www.inaturalist.org/search?q=selaginella+emmeliana does not lead to https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/426645-Selaginella-emmeliana. @loarie’s response above helps, but I would not have known how to find https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/search without this forum. So perhaps it’s a good idea to have the standard search field on the main page return anything that the inaturalist taxonomy ever knew about. Even if it’s niche.

Maybe you should vote for it. :)

To me the ideal solution would be to have a single portal for taxon searches, and have an active/inactive filter that is only available to curators as part of that. I do occasionally have a need to research inactive taxa for past taxon changes, dealing with new ungrafted taxa, etc.

@bouteloua so would you want the inactive taxa to appear on the Taxa search results page for curators, much like this does? [image]

Yeah, I think there should be the same type of link on the newer search as there is on the older /taxa/search page: one that says “Show active and inactive taxa”. Then it switches to “Only show active taxa” so you can go between the options. [image] [image] https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/search?is_active=any&q=corycium&utf8=✓

@schoenitz you might find you have enough votes now ;)

Search for inactive taxa in header search (at least for curators)

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jwidness August 1, 2020, 1:02am 16

Inactive would definitely help, though sometimes I would still have to use the old search because there are just too many fuzzy matches and you can’t force exact matches in the header search.

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Search for inactive taxa in header search (at least for curators)

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