Untrue "zero observations" on species summary pages

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Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Website

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Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : Firefox

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Step 1: I’ve noticed two cases in the last couple days of species where the summary page claims “no observations”, “total observations: 0” for species that in fact have several observations, some of them not at all recent.

Step 2: Here are links for one example:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?taxon_id=578183 (19 for this species going back to 2017)
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/578183-Gnathonarium-dentatum (so why aren’t they recognized here?)

Step 3: Another example:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?taxon_id=318913 (6 observations going back to 2019)
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/318913-Oonops-pulcher (but this page thinks there aren’t any!)

I made screenshots of first example, hope they uploaded OK.


could you please provide some details and screenshots here, it’s not clear what the actual problem is at the moment

I think it might be because of your location being set to “north america”. Those pages display the appropriate number of observations for me…

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It may be a browser issue your side, as the stats show up fine for me.

As these spiders are in Europe, the filter on the top right isn’t showing any observations. Clicking the X next to “North America” should reset it and show the correct number of observations. I’ve left this filter on a lot of times and have been confused by an inaccurate observation count too.

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