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.…

From another thread: Identified Cyanobacteria etc showing up in the explore page when filtering by "Unknown species" Bacteria are shown as unknown as they’re not iconic taxa on iNat. It’s not a bug.

OK understood. If I wanted to filter them out, is there a way to do this?

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.

You can add the &without_taxon_id=XXXXXX to the URL to filter out a certain taxon.

See here: [image] Are some observations more in need of IDing than others? 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 L…

[image] Are some observations more in need of IDing than others? &without_taxon_id=67333%2C131236%2C151817 Perfect, thanks. I’ll give it a try.

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 f…

Thanks, I’ll give this a try too.

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swampster September 2, 2023, 4:14pm 6

See here:

Topic		Replies	Views
IDed species turns up in Identify with 'Unknown' filter Bug Reports	2	1163	July 27, 2019
Non-iconic taxa appear under unidentified/unknown observations Bug Reports	3	1453	February 9, 2020
Why isn't "Kingdom Bacteria" shown on the Life taxa page? General question	7	975	January 11, 2024
Identified Cyanobacteria etc showing up in the explore page when filtering by "Unknown species" Bug Reports	3	507	November 8, 2021
ID-number for "unknown" to exclude from search? General	3	301	December 3, 2021

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