Sorting photos of shells

[thomaseverest]

In terms of how they’re meant to be used on iNat (in the context of evidence of presence annotations):

@tiwane

What about “shells” for mollusks?

I actually tried this out on our test server but found that it was of little use. Most observations of shelled mollusks, whether dead or alive, already include photos of the shell so it didn’t do much for separating out the types of evidence one might come across. Probably best to use the Alive or Dead annotation for shell finds.

Most mollusks, live or dead, are IDed by shell, so the organism is usually not considered much more than that (although that is changing for the better). It’s definitely part of the organism, unlike nests or tracks, but if it’s dead and empty I suppose it would be more like a bone category.