What is the accepted procedure in case of superseded taxonomy? I have come across a case when one of my id’s had a relatively recent genus change, while there are existing records with the old classification. Should these now be marked as incorrect, because they changed?

For any given organism, there should be only one scientific name in use on iNat, which might or might not be the most current name (based on other recent references). Do you mean there are two active names for the same species on iNat?

Depending on how many records are impacted by the change, it can take time for all the observations to be updated. It is not a ‘all at once’ process.

There is only a handful of records for that species.

It really depends on what area the species is in. Many groups are tied to specific external references and will not get updated until a change is reflected there. If you are aware of a taxa you think is outdated the best option is to go to the taxa page, click on the curation drop down towards the …

[image] sylvester_k: I have come across a case when one of my id’s had a relatively recent genus change, while there are existing records with the old classification. Besides the latency in the system that @cmcheatle mentioned above, there are a couple of other ways this could happen: It mi…

I think we may be having a conversation here while using the same term to mean 2 different things. I think we are calling ‘taxonomy change’ to mean 2 different things. I think the original poster is using it in the sense of a published paper etc moving a species from genus A to genus B etc I think…

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sylvester_k February 25, 2020, 7:45pm 4

Yes, this is what I mean.

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