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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. 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 is part of the Neotropical Birds version 1.0 API.
Usage Notes
Note: 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 This is part of the Neotropical Birds version 1.0 API.
URL
Base URL
http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/ws1.0/ref/taxa
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