Result colours
Each match is marked with its iNaturalist iconic-taxon colour.
- Fungi
- Plantae
- Animalia
- Insecta, Arachnida, Mollusca
- Protozoa
- Chromista
How the search widens
- First — the number exactly as you typed it, in case it is right and a clue is the thing that is wrong.
- Then — one substituted digit, two adjacent digits swapped, and a missing or extra digit at any position.
- Then — two substituted digits, and finally three, asking first when a step is a large one.
It finishes a step before stopping, so you see every equally good candidate rather than
just the first. Observations that match only some of your clues are kept and shown too.
iNaturalist numbers observations in the order they were uploaded, so the numbers either
side of a mistyped one often belong to the same person. If the answer is not in the
results, Keep looking carries on from where it stopped.