iNaturalist taxon ID

ID inaturalist_taxon_id

DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft

This record is a draft: it has not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong. Do not rely on it for compliance decisions. Help improve it (see CONTRIBUTING.md).

Number of a taxon of any rank, from kingdom to subspecies, in iNaturalist, the citizen-science platform for biodiversity observations; 1 is the kingdom Animalia. In November 2026 the highest id is about 1.7 million. Curators edit the taxonomy, so check the name behind an id. A bare number: recognize it only with column context.

Categories: Environment (protected areas, biodiversity, water, weather, emissions, waste), Scientific
Countries: Global (not tied to a country)
Languages: Common to most languages
Bioregistry: inaturalist.taxon
Wikidata: P3151
Quality: 90/100 · missing: detector coverage
Metacrafter rules: no detection rule yet
Supported by tools: no tool record lists this type yet

Regular expression

^[1-9]\d{0,6}$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Value	Description
21723	Atelopus zeteki (Panamanian golden frog); Wikidata and Bioregistry example
1	Animalia (animals); Wikidata example
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/21723 invalid	Full URL; the id is the number alone

Translations

Language	Name	Description
Russian	Идентификатор таксона iNaturalist	Номер таксона любого ранга на платформе гражданской науки iNaturalist. Таксономию правят кураторы, поэтому название за номером стоит проверять.

Sources

doc: https://api.inaturalist.org/v1/docs/
doc: https://bioregistry.io/registry/inaturalist.taxon
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INaturalist
wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3151

Use this record

Page URL: https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/inaturalist_taxon_id
JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
Improve it: edit data/datatypes/any/environment/inaturalist_taxon_id.yaml on GitHub