*Confusion intensifies *
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Oh my goodness thank you SOOO much! I never even heard of this tool but it is SOOO cool! I found that I observed some subspecies of mushroom with 24 observations, and I’m not even a fungi person!!
Sadly, I didn’t see the rare subspecies of Mexican paper wasp I found, with only 7 or 8 observations…oh well, I learned a lot today anyway 
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Yeah they DEFINITELY made observations of him :)
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This year, I found a ghost pipe having sprung up in a courtyard! Super cool find!
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What a great tool! Thanks for sharing. I have about 20 research grade observations that I am the only observer but I do wonder if that’s more a function of me photographing every tiny brown bug rather than a function of their actual rarity :/
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I think mine would be the Mount Spurgeon black pine. Pectinopitys ladei This large conifer grows in a few sites at high altitude in the North Queensland rainforest. I saw it in it’s natural state in 1984 while doing forestry surveys.
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Cat Island slider, probably my rarest herp!! Only 80 observations on iNat! I saw it in July, but only just now did it finally get ID’ed. So exciting!!
Apparently also the first found on the Grand Bahama Island too!
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BEHOLD!! my rare pokemon! most of them are from africa or s.e.asia but i did manage to find a fly this summer in ontario (P fallax, 9 global obs) that’s super rare for some reason. i LOVE this tool, this stuff gives me so much serotonin haha.
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For me it has to be either the northern leatherside chub (Lepidomeda copei) or it’s sibling species the southern leatherside chub (L. aliciae), having 18 and 23 observations respectively. Both are fairly rare minnow species with limited ranges that happen to overlap with where I frequent
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Hmm…probably the endangered, endemic to New Jersey Narthecium americanum (Yellow Asphodel.) I’ve found quite a few spiders that have few observations on iNaturalist but those are hard to chalk up to anything more than “spiders are underrepresented.”
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only the fifth observation online of this plant:
Euphorbia cattimandoo - https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/304970815
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From this tool (see this thread), I found that I have two observations representing species that have been observed fewer than 10 times on the site.
One of those I have previously posted in this thread, but the other was unfamiliar to me. This Stout Stick Insect only has 6 other observations. According to this scientific article, the Genus (and species) was only described in 2005, and is ‘only known from a small part of the Eastern Cape’ - though most of the iNaturalist observations are from the Northern and Western Cape Provinces.
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