# Subspecies. How useful are they?

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/subspecies-how-useful-are-they/44521>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [August 23, 2023, 8:25pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/subspecies-how-useful-are-they/44521 "2023-08-23T20:25:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![cthawley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/cthawley/32/1445_2.png) [@cthawley](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/cthawley)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/subspecies-how-useful-are-they/44521/2 "2023-08-23T20:37:26Z")

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This recent/current thread has a lot of info/related posts:  
[https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/improve-support-workflow-for-subspecies/44468](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/improve-support-workflow-for-subspecies/44468)

The second post there has links to some previous posts that address a lot of the issues raised.

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