Everyone can see the coordinates unless the taxon is threatened.
Obscured
Public coordinates shown as a random point within 10KM of the true coordinates. True coordinates are only visible to you and the curators of projects to which you add the observation.
private
Coordinates completely hidden from public maps, true coordinates only visible to you and the curators of projects to which you add the observation. Observations with private coordinates will still be used to verify place check lists.
Interesting. When I was initially trained, I learnt about this diagnotric role of stripes in Natrix persa. But later on, when I saw striping in another subspecies (N. n. scuttatta), and stripless snakes in striped "persa" populations, I started to think 0that striping is not really a reliable diagnostic feature, and that phylogeny and systematics of Grass Snakes seems to be much more complex than we believe. Unfortunately I have never got a chance to run a study of these guys, but still it is very interesting. Just thinking;)
The data quality assessment is a summary of an observation's accuracy. All
observations start as "casual" grade, and achieve
"research" grade when
the iNat community agrees with the observer's ID, where an "agreeing"
identification is one that matches exactly or is of a child taxon of the
observer's ID. For example, if Scott says it's a mammal and Ken-ichi
says it's Homo sapiens, then Ken-ichi agrees with Scott.
the observation has a date
the observation is georeferenced (i.e. has lat/lon coordinates)
the observation has a photo
Observations will revert to "casual" grade if the above conditions aren't met or
the community agrees the location doesn't looks accurate (e.g. monkeys in the middle of the ocean, hippos in office buildings, etc.)
the community agrees the organism isn't wild/naturalized (e.g. captive or cultivated by humans or intelligent space aliens)
Comments & Identifications
Got him!
Definitely Natrix natrix, not sure about subspecies though.
you are right, this snake is missing the two lines on the back that the other snakes did have in the lake.
Interesting. When I was initially trained, I learnt about this diagnotric role of stripes in Natrix persa. But later on, when I saw striping in another subspecies (N. n. scuttatta), and stripless snakes in striped "persa" populations, I started to think 0that striping is not really a reliable diagnostic feature, and that phylogeny and systematics of Grass Snakes seems to be much more complex than we believe. Unfortunately I have never got a chance to run a study of these guys, but still it is very interesting. Just thinking;)
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