Likewise with fish, there are many lookalikes which are accepted as different species, with different (sometimes widely separated, but occasionally overlapping) ranges, so from most photographs of those it’s often only possible to identify to species if the range is known, and not confidently better than genus when observed where the ranges are known to overlap.
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