Virus observation is both Research Grade and "Unknown"

Viruses (and a few other taxa) always show in Unknown.

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/non-iconic-taxa-appear-under-unidentified-unknown-observations/702

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/ided-species-turns-up-in-identify-with-unknown-filter/5188

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/genus-nostoc-showing-in-search-for-unknown/8931

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/why-is-state-of-matter-life-not-limited-to-observations-with-conflicting-kingdom-ids/3555/9

It’s a known issue going back to at least 2016:
https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/1150

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