What is the elasmobranch icon?

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Not sure if this is intentional, but the icon for sharks and rays looks very similar to the plant icon. What is it supposed to be?

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i thought that was supposd to be a tadpole or tiny ‘unknown’ organism rather than a plant. Still, it’s true it’s a bit odd

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Ha, I definitely thought it was the plant icon, just in blue. It seems to have a little eye or something though, so not quite the same.

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i don’t think that it’s much of an issue, 'cause a) there are no blue plants; b) plants ain’t got no eyes. if you’re into design - suggestion (sketch, maybe, in this case) would be much better than critique.

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That is actually the icon for “other animals”, which includes any animal that is not a mammal, bird, bony fish, reptile, amphibian, insect, arachnid, or mollusk. I always found it somewhat pointless and confusing, since while it does save space by serving as a catch-all category for more obscure phyla/classes that don’t belong in preexisting categories, animals such as crustaceans, elasmobranchs, and probably myriapods have received more than enough observations to deserve their own categories.

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I always thought it was a Daphnia or something like that.
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Also for the sake of my sanity and other people’s sanity please make Arthropods and Mollusks have different colors

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IMHO there should also be icons for viruses and the prokaryote kingdoms. Many new users are probably not even aware that Inaturalist covers these taxa.

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Since this isn’t really a bug, I’m going to mark it solved and ask that further discussion move to https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/make-crustaceans-and-myriapods-iconic-taxa/996.

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@moderators could you close or merge this with https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/make-crustaceans-and-myriapods-iconic-taxa/996 as you see fit?

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