Thanks, this seems to be a duplicate project with @rguy321 's Undescribed species on iNaturalist, therefore.
Please could the two of you liaise on how best to merge these duplicate projects into one as I do not see the pint of having two different projects for the same thing..
But these are totally inadequate.
Our project, contains several features, the most of which is to allow entry of these fields:
Observation Fields
• New species reference and name
Please give a reference for the species (e.g. Cape Plants II Disa sp. 4) or a herbarium specimen number
• Range extension documentation
Please estimate the distance of the range extension and your source for justifying this.
• Unusual forms and variants
Please use a logical form and see what others have been using for your species
• Specimen Herbarium/Museum Voucher Number: (CREW)
Your personal accession number for the specimen collected. (leave blank if none - do not include if none)
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Is this project supposed to be for southern Africa only since I see lots of non-African observations?
This project started out for southern Africa, but is now international.
Anyone is welcome to use it, and the associated observation fields.
If you want to look at a specific region, that filter the data.
But usually one wants to filter by taxon.
e.g. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&project_id=undescribed-species-and-taxa&taxon_id=47157&verifiable=any
For most meaningful results, download the data with the field: "New species reference and name:"
Thanks, this seems to be a duplicate project with @rguy321 's Undescribed species on iNaturalist, therefore.
Please could the two of you liaise on how best to merge these duplicate projects into one as I do not see the pint of having two different projects for the same thing..
No!
That is just a project (in fact, 2 projects):
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/undescribed-species-on-inaturalist
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/undescribed-species-on-inaturalist-umbrella
and there is a third (just for spiders):
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/undescribed-arachnid-species-found-on-inaturalist
But these are totally inadequate.
Our project, contains several features, the most of which is to allow entry of these fields:
Observation Fields
• New species reference and name
Please give a reference for the species (e.g. Cape Plants II Disa sp. 4) or a herbarium specimen number
• Range extension documentation
Please estimate the distance of the range extension and your source for justifying this.
• Unusual forms and variants
Please use a logical form and see what others have been using for your species
• Specimen Herbarium/Museum Voucher Number: (CREW)
Your personal accession number for the specimen collected. (leave blank if none - do not include if none)
Whereas the other are merely projects, this project allows one to filter new species: for instance:
Here are the records of the undescribed species, which we are calling "Indigofera rodinii"
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?verifiable=any&place_id=any&field:New%20species%20reference%20and%20name=Indigofera%20rodinii%20sp.%20nov%2e
One can to the same with the other fields, which makes this project useful, where the others are merely one-dimensional.
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