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Global Biodiversity Information Facility: species names, taxonomy and 2 billion-plus occurrence records.

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Capabilities (13)

GET /v1/data/gbif/dataset1 credit

Returns one GBIF dataset's registry entry: title, DOI, description, licence, publishing organisation, contacts, citation, geographic and temporal coverage, and endpoints.

key
GET /v1/data/gbif/dataset-search1 credit

Returns GBIF-registered datasets matching a query, with key, title, DOI, description, type, publishing organisation, licence and record counts.

q?type?subtype?license?publishingCountry?publishingOrg?hostingOrg?keyword?decade?limit?offset?facet?
GET /v1/data/gbif/occurrence1 credit

Returns biodiversity occurrence records - individual observations and specimens - with scientific name, taxonomy, coordinates, country, date, recorder, basis of record and the publishing dataset.

q?taxonKey?scientificName?country?year?month?limit?offset?hasCoordinate?hasGeospatialIssue?basisOfRecord?datasetKey?institutionCode?recordedBy?decimalLatitude?decimalLongitude?geometry?facet?facetLimit?mediaType?continent?publishingCountry?
GET /v1/data/gbif/occurrence-count1 credit

Returns just the number of occurrence records matching a filter, as a bare JSON number, with no record payload.

taxonKeycountry?year?basisOfRecord?datasetKey?hasCoordinate?publishingCountry?isGeoreferenced?
GET /v1/data/gbif/occurrence-record1 credit

Returns one occurrence in full, including every verbatim Darwin Core field, the interpreted taxonomy, coordinates, event date, identifiers, licence, media and the data-quality issues GBIF flagged.

gbifId
GET /v1/data/gbif/organization1 credit

Returns one data-publishing organisation: title, description, homepage, postal address, country, contacts, endorsing node and endorsement status.

key
GET /v1/data/gbif/organizations1 credit

Returns the institutions that publish data to GBIF, with key, title, description, country, address, contacts and endorsement status.

q?country?limit?offset?isEndorsed?
GET /v1/data/gbif/species1 credit

Returns taxon name records across GBIF's checklists with scientific name, authorship, rank, taxonomic status, the full kingdom-to-species hierarchy and the source checklist.

q?rank?status?limit?offset?datasetKey?highertaxonKey?habitat?threat?nameType?isExtinct?facet?
GET /v1/data/gbif/species-children1 credit

Returns the taxa one rank directly below the given one - the species in a genus, the genera in a family - each as a full taxon record.

keylimit?offset?
GET /v1/data/gbif/species-match1 credit

Fuzzy-matches a scientific name against the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and returns the single best hit with its usage key, accepted name, rank, status, match type, confidence score and full hierarchy.

namerank?kingdom?phylum?class?order?family?genus?strict?verbose?
GET /v1/data/gbif/species-record1 credit

Returns one taxon: canonical and full scientific name, authorship, rank, taxonomic status, parent chain from kingdom down, the number of occurrences and descendants, and the source checklist.

key
GET /v1/data/gbif/species-synonyms1 credit

Returns the names GBIF treats as synonyms of the given accepted taxon, each with its authorship, rank and the checklist it came from.

keylimit?offset?
GET /v1/data/gbif/species-vernacular-names1 credit

Returns the vernacular names recorded for a taxon with their language code, country where used, and the source checklist.

keylimit?offset?

Licence

CC0, under which data are made available for any use without restriction or particular requirements on the part of users

https://www.gbif.org/terms

Attribution

Display this wherever you show the data. It arrives on every response as provenance.attribution_text.

Source: GBIF.org

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