Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
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The US Integrated Taxonomic Information System: given a taxonomic serial number, return the full taxonomic record, its common names in every language, its classification hierarchy, its recorded geographic distribution and its rank and kingdom.
Capabilities (6)
GET /v1/data/itis/common-names1 creditReturns every common name recorded for a TSN with its language.
GET /v1/data/itis/full-record1 creditReturns the complete ITIS record for a TSN: accepted and unaccepted names, expert and reference lists, jurisdictional occurrences, geographic values, parent TSN and credibility rating.
GET /v1/data/itis/geographic-values1 creditReturns the geographic regions ITIS records for a TSN, as a list of region names such as Africa or East Pacific.
GET /v1/data/itis/hierarchy-down1 creditReturns the taxonomic hierarchy from a TSN downwards, with each child's name, rank, author and TSN.
GET /v1/data/itis/kingdom-names1 creditReturns the kingdoms in ITIS with their kingdom id and name.
GET /v1/data/itis/taxonomic-rank1 creditReturns one TSN's kingdom id and name, rank id and rank name, such as Animalia and Species.
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https://www.itis.gov/privacy.htmlAttribution
Display this wherever you show the data. It arrives on every response as provenance.attribution_text.
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