hi Just wondering what fields in the export file I should select to figure out the unique species count for an observer in my project. I am getting two different answers from what I see in iNat and what I see in the exported CSV. Images added hear to explain better. For now I am using “Scientific_N…

iNat doesn’t count subspecies separately, but Remove Duplicates does. Same for taxa above the species level (e.g. Remove Duplicates will count Argynnis and A. atlantis separately, but iNat isn’t counting Argynnis).

Unique number of Species in export VERSUS displayed in Nat

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