Hello. I’m hoping someone would be able to help me understand how to use the &not_in_place= search. I’m taking a trip to Utah soon and I’d like to get a general sense of what species I could see there that aren’t in my home state of California. I know CA is place 14 and utah is place 52 but I cant …

that query won’t do anything because California isn’t nested inside Utah. That term is designed to exclude smaller places within larger places, eg you might say place_id=1&not_in_place=14, which would be observations from the USA but not from California but even if it did work like you’re currently…

depending on what you’re trying to do, this may be relevant, too: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/species-found-in-one-place-but-not-in-another/71706 .

i am not sure where i am doing wrong for that filter: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?reviewed=any&quality_grade=needs_id%2Cresearch&iconic_taxa=Mollusca&place_id=6681&not_in_list_id=6982 i am trying to see Indian mollusc IDs not in India checklist https://www.inaturalist.org/ch…

it’s because the Indian checklist has some higher-than-species-level taxa in the list: https://www.inaturalist.org/check_lists/6982-India-Check-List?view=taxonomic&rank=all . i’m not sure why the India checklist has, say, Animalia, but the Kentucky checklist doesn’t. so if you can’t trust the India c…

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