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Returns a list of orders, families and species which are covered by Neotropical Birds Online as well as the status of each species account in Neotropical Birds. These are ordered This API is meant to serve as the data behind the user interface of Species lists and Taxonomic Trees and can be used to generate links to species accounts. The list is returned in taxonomic order base on the Clements world taxonomy.
This This is part of the Neotropical Birds version 1.0 API.
Usage Notes
Species accounts which have both article-complete and article-stub value of 0 may or may not exist in the Neotropical Birds site. Only accounts which have a designation of article-complete=1 or article-stub=1 will be guaranteed to have a species account. Do not link to any account which has both article-complete and article-stub value of 0
URL
Base URL
http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/ws1.0/ref/taxa
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Field (XML) | Attribute | Description | |
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taxon-list |
| Parent tag | |
taxon-list | template-url | Partial URL to be combined with the species id to construct a link to a Neotropical Birds species account taxon-list | |
locale | locale of the response, Current support for en_US only | ||
order |
| Taxonomic rank of Order order | |
sci-name | Scientific name of the Order order | ||
has-complete | 0/1 boolean flag designating whether this Order contains any complete species accounts order | ||
has-stub | 0/1 boolean flag designating whether this Order contains any "stub" or partial species accounts | ||
family |
| Taxonomic rank of Family family | |
sci-name | Scientific name of the Family family | ||
has-complete | 0/1 boolean flag designating whether this Familycontains Family contains any complete species accounts family | ||
has-stub | 0/1 boolean flag designating whether this Familycontains Family contains any "stub" or partial species accounts | ||
species |
| Taxonomic rank of Species species | |
com-name | Common name of this species in the locale from the taxon-list tag species | ||
sci-name | Scientific name | species | |
article-complete | Common name | species 0/1 boolean flag designating whether this species account is complete | |
article-stub | Common name | species 0/1 boolean flag designating whether this species account is a partial account or "stub" account | |
id | species "id" concatenated to the end of the template-url to generate the species account link |
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