Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Website Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : Firefox URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/51280-Nemertea https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?verifiable=true&taxon_id=51280&place_id=&…

I believe this is a difference in IDs added (first instance) vs. observations with that ID and identifier (second instance). That user has added 83 IDs of that taxon, but only 67 observations identified by that user have the ID of that species (presumably because some IDs are disagreements and the o…

I believe this is a known bug, someone should find the original report so a moderator can merge them.

You only linked the bug report, not the feature request, fyi.

Here’s the feature request: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/link-to-top-identifiers-of-that-taxon-not-observations-of-that-taxon/7337/ I think it has the clearest explanations, but I may be biased.

I agree it’s confusing, but in the second example, the “identifications” are specifically only tied to certain observations; that’s just how the Explore page works. I think it’s helpful to have both.

Maybe a good solution could be that when you hover the mouse over the # of IDs in the Taxon page it says what that number means, and something similar with the Leaderboard

odole: Why not using different names ? They’re not labelled as exactly the same thing. I agree that having them linked through the Leaderboard button is confusing and there should probably be more of an explanation somewhere.

Is it needed to create a new feature request? or I can make a comment under the old

Top identifier ID number doesn't match in Leaderboard

Bug Reports

Topic		Replies	Views
Differences in total numbers for Top Identifiers on two pages General	7	252	December 30, 2025
Only 1 identifier for species, but "Top Identifier" is someone else Bug Reports	14	1542	April 8, 2020
Top identifier leaderboard differences General question	8	1304	March 12, 2021
Top Identifiers on an Observation page showing the wrong identifiers for the taxon Bug Reports	4	1028	November 4, 2020
Top identifier doesn't update after IDs are overturned General	10	659	March 26, 2025

Top identifier ID number doesn't match in Leaderboard

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