# Unknown bacteria **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [September 2, 2023, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/unknown-bacteria/44834 "2023-09-02T15:22:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lynkos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/lynkos/32/71885_2.png) [@lynkos](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/lynkos)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/unknown-bacteria/44834/1 "2023-09-02T15:22:07Z")
Not sure if this is a general bug worth reporting, or if it’s me doing something wrong, but I’ve noticed that when searching for Unknowns to ID, some of the observations displayed (all in the Kingdom Bacteria I believe) actually already have an ID. It’s not a big deal of course, just a bit annoying. Has anyone else noticed this? ---
**Author:** ![swampster](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/swampster/32/37519_2.png) [@swampster](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/swampster)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/unknown-bacteria/44834/2 "2023-09-02T15:33:54Z")
From another thread: > [@Identified Cyanobacteria etc showing up in the explore page when filtering by "Unknown species"](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/identified-cyanobacteria-etc-showing-up-in-the-explore-page-when-filtering-by-unknown-species/27263/2): > > Bacteria are shown as unknown as they’re not iconic taxa on iNat. It’s not a bug. ---
**Author:** ![lynkos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/lynkos/32/71885_2.png) [@lynkos](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/lynkos)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/unknown-bacteria/44834/3 "2023-09-02T15:46:17Z")
OK understood. If I wanted to filter them out, is there a way to do this? ---
**Author:** ![belgianferns](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/belgianferns/32/36787_2.png) [@belgianferns](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/belgianferns)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 3:48pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/unknown-bacteria/44834/4 "2023-09-02T15:48:35Z")
Just commenting to stay in the loop. But I’ve always wanted to filter certain species out when IDing, but I don’t think it’s possible. ---
**Author:** ![birds\_and\_wasps](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/birds_and_wasps/32/37569_2.png) [@birds\_and\_wasps](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/birds_and_wasps)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 3:54pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/unknown-bacteria/44834/5 "2023-09-02T15:54:06Z")
You can add the &without\_taxon\_id=XXXXXX to the URL to filter out a certain taxon. ---
**Author:** ![swampster](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/swampster/32/37519_2.png) [@swampster](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/swampster)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 4:14pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/unknown-bacteria/44834/6 "2023-09-02T16:14:01Z")
See here: > [@Are some observations more in need of IDing than others?](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/are-some-observations-more-in-need-of-iding-than-others/2950/28): > > Ahead of some future proper categorization of Bacteria, Viruses and Archaea at the site, I finally figured out how to exclude those when searching for Unknowns. It will pull up a mix of only Unknown and “State of Matter Life” if you add the following chunk to your search url: > > &without\_taxon\_id=67333%2C131236%2C151817 ---
**Author:** ![lynkos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/lynkos/32/71885_2.png) [@lynkos](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/lynkos)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/unknown-bacteria/44834/7 "2023-09-02T16:23:48Z")
> [@Are some observations more in need of IDing than others?](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/are-some-observations-more-in-need-of-iding-than-others/2950/28): > > &without\_taxon\_id=67333%2C131236%2C151817 Perfect, thanks. I’ll give it a try. ---
**Author:** ![lotteryd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/lotteryd/32/2490_2.png) [@lotteryd](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/lotteryd)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 5:52pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/unknown-bacteria/44834/8 "2023-09-02T17:52:27Z")
Here is an exclusion chunk that I currently use in my Unknowns only/ no Life url: &without\_taxon\_id=48460%2C1126112%2C67333%2C131236%2C151817%2C48222 the 48460 number excludes all Life, and makes the later numbers redundant, but I keep those in so that I can adjust the focus with an easy edit. I forget what the other couple numbers do. Edit: 1126112 was from some unrelated past issue and can be removed so &without\_taxon\_id=48460%2C67333%2C131236%2C151817%2C48222 ---
**Author:** ![lynkos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/lynkos/32/71885_2.png) [@lynkos](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/lynkos)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2023, 5:22am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/unknown-bacteria/44834/10 "2023-09-03T05:22:53Z")
Thanks, I’ll give this a try too. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/inaturalist/original/2X/7/7831452cf7f0d653ff1ffd34176334b7ef1b6a17.png) [@system](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 5:23am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/unknown-bacteria/44834/11 "2023-11-02T05:23:18Z")
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