Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Website (didn’t try others) Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : Safari 13.1.2, but that seems likely to be irrelevant URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/55131919 [Screen Shot …

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…

I recommend voting for this feature request: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/create-iconic-taxa-for-bacteria-archaea-and-viruses/1464

Thanks @Star3 , this is the first time I had run across it since I don’t usually look at Unknowns. Definitely seems worthy of improvement – I will vote for that feature request.

Virus observation is both Research Grade and "Unknown"

Bug Reports

Topic		Replies	Views
What's with this not-Unknown creature showing up in the Unknown search? Bug Reports	4	1493	June 12, 2019
Non-iconic taxa appear under unidentified/unknown observations Bug Reports	2	1465	March 13, 2019
Identified Cyanobacteria etc showing up in the explore page when filtering by "Unknown species" Bug Reports	2	517	October 18, 2021
IDed species turns up in Identify with 'Unknown' filter Bug Reports	1	1176	July 20, 2019
Unknown bacteria General	8	459	September 3, 2023

Virus observation is both Research Grade and "Unknown"

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