Description
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 base on the Clements world taxonomy
This is part of the Neotropical Birds version 1.0 API.
URL
Base URL
http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/ws1.0/ref/taxa
Result Fields
Field (XML) |
Attribute |
Description |
|---|---|---|
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 complete species accounts |
order |
has-stub |
0/1 boolean flag designating whether this Order contains 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 complete species accounts |
family |
has-stub |
0/1 boolean flag designating whether this Familycontains 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 |
article-stub |
Common name |
species |
id |
species "id" concatenated to the end of the template-url to generate the species account link |
Example Responses
XML
<taxon-list template-url="http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p_spp=" locale="en_US">
<order sci-name="Struthioniformes" has-complete="0" has-stub="0">
<family sci-name="Rheidae" has-complete="0" has-stub="0">
<species com-name="Greater Rhea" sci-name="Rhea americana" article-complete="0" article-stub="0" id="55956"/>
<species com-name="Lesser Rhea" sci-name="Rhea pennata" article-complete="0" article-stub="0" id="56116"/>
</family>
</order>
<order sci-name="Tinamiformes" has-complete="0" has-stub="0">
<family sci-name="Tinamidae" has-complete="0" has-stub="0">
<species com-name="Tawny-breasted Tinamou" sci-name="Nothocercus julius" article-complete="0" article-stub="0" id="56276"/>
<species com-name="Highland Tinamou" sci-name="Nothocercus bonapartei" article-complete="0" article-stub="0" id="56436"/>
<species com-name="Hooded Tinamou" sci-name="Nothocercus nigrocapillus" article-complete="0" article-stub="0" id="56596"/>
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.
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</family>
</order>
</taxon-list>