This can refine the community taxon even if it doesn’t change the observation taxon. But with subspecies this can be helpful in changing the observation taxon because stuff gets weird with subspecies IDs (which is maybe another reason to avoid them).
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/leading-subspecies-ids-should-change-the-obs-taxon-like-leading-ids-of-other-ranks/139
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