As I consider this behavior as not intended, I decided to file a Bug Report instead of a Feature Request Platform: Website as well as (Android) App Screenshots of what you are seeing: [grafik] Description of problem: According to POWO, Carex brizoides is an accepted species and also a synonym…

According to both POWO and iNat, all of the three binomials are accepted species. Note that Carex brizoides Huds. and Carex brizoides Geners. have different taxon authors (they denote different taxon concepts) and are junior synonyms while Carex brizoides L. is an accepted species. Maybe iNat shou…

In case it is not clear what the quintessence of this topic is: I am not addressing the validity of any species or synonyms here, but rather the behavior of the algorithm that lists the suggestions upon entering the name. What I want: The current (in iNat) accecpted species should be listed on top,…

In the Carex example, looks like someone removed Carex brizoides as an unaccepted name for Carex leporina, so here’s what I get now, it’s been “fixed” [image] But I believe this is working as designed. All scientific names are weighted the same, whether or not they’re currently accepted, and we a…

@ carnifex Oh, i understand what you mean now - that the literal (and accepted) search match should be on top? i.e. the second line in your screenshot should be on top? But still note that every line/suggestion is a different and valid/accepted taxon - you don’t get the same taxon listed twice. So t…

As Tony stated, it works as intended, so not a bug. That is if Carex leporina is more often reported than the ‘true’ C. brizoides, it will appear on top, even if typing the synonym. (Not anymore now as the synonym for C. leporina has been deleted) Just want to mention that other users got confused …

Thanks @carnifex . I’m going to close this as it’s not a bug, but if you want to make a feature request or brainstorm better search ideas, go for it.

'wrong' order of ID suggestions: Synonyms are shown before accepted taxon

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bouteloua May 20, 2021, 12:09pm 9

(Heads up that a related feature request was recently submitted that would help with this issue: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/prioritize-scientific-name-over-synonym-in-display-order-of-species-search/23191)

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'wrong' order of ID suggestions: Synonyms are shown before accepted taxon

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