Wrong taxon returned

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Platform (Android, iOS, Website): API

URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&taxon_id=47570&view=species
https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/observations/species_counts?taxon_id=47570

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Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.):

Step 1: Open “All observations” page and search “Populus alba”.

Step 2: Delete default location if there are any

Step 3: Look to species tab

The problem is this: I have observations of Populus alba (id 47570), but an inactive species Populus alba pyramidalis (962906). If I narrow the search by adding a location or project, I get the correct Populus alba.
PS: I suppose if I re-identify the observation with Populus alba pyramidalis the problem goes away, but I’d like the underlying problem with the API to be fixed.

Upd: If I try to add taxon_is_active=true to query, I don’t have correct species on observation page https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&taxon_id=47570&view=species&taxon_is_active=true

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Has been resolved meanwhile?
I only find Populus alba.

I can reproduce exactly what is seen in the screenshot using either the URL above or by doing a fresh search on the explore page

Apologies.
Inactive taxon - needs to be flagged for curation.
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/962906-Populus-alba-pyramidalis

Weird, we’ll take a look.

With a single obs
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/62608704

I’m not sure if there should be any flags. It is already marked as inactive.
I think the problem is rank of the taxa (species, not subspecies) and because it is child taxon of another species, something wrong is happened.

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is why a curator, or iNat staff, needs to resolve the issue.

I tried changing the rank from species to subspecies, but it appears not to have affected this

Perhaps iNat staff needs to resolve the issue?
@tiwane ?

It’s fixed now. Not sure if it took some time for my changes yesterday to percolate thru the system or if the admins did something.

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