Hi Markus, Thanks for the detailed response on how to work with the checklists. Just to clarify, I think the ITIS checklist UUID is 29675850-b60f-11e1-bd72-00145eb45e9a based on information at:
http://www.gbif.org/dataset/29675850-b60f-11e1-bd72-00145eb45e9a If that is right, then for *Ecsenius bicolor*, I guessed that I should try to get the taxonomic classification based on the ITIS checklist using: http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/106963049/related?datasetKey=29675850-b60f-11e1-bd72-00145eb45e9a but that returns an empty list. Regards Geoff Shuetrim On 18 August 2014 20:06, Markus D?ring <mdoering at gbif.org> wrote: > Hi Geoff, > > GBIF keeps track of taxonomies of various quality and extant as "checklist > datasets" in our Checklist Bank: > http://www.gbif.org/dataset/search?type=CHECKLIST > > Every checklist is free to use any number of ranks it wants to use. NCBI > for example has a "depth" of about 34 taxa or more I vaguely recall, > whereas some checklists do not have any classification at all. > The GBIF backbone taxonomy which we use to organize our occurrence records > uses the higher taxon terms found in darwin core as ranks plus some > infraspecific ones: > > kingdom > phylum > class > order > family > genus > subgenus > species > > To see the different classifications for the same name in various > checklists we also provide a service that takes the GBIF taxon id: > http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/2396049/related > > > Please note that a taxon from this response might have more ranks defined > in its classification as given in this flat view. Only the darwin core > terms are used for literal name strings, but you might be able to retrieve > a more complete classification by following up the parent relations using > the parentKey property. For any given taxon key a full classification is > shown in our portal here resolving all parentKeys up to the root. > > For example the NCBI version of Ecsenius bicolor with 34 levels: > http://www.gbif.org/species/106963049/classification > > > best, > Markus > > > > On 05 Aug 2014, at 05:16, Geoff Shuetrim <geoff at galexy.net> wrote: > > > I am new to the GBIF web services but have had some experience using the > web services exposed by ITIS, WoRMS and the Atlas of Living Australia. I > have a number of questions that this mailing list may be able to assist > with. I will send each question in a separate email to make it easier to > follow threads in case that becomes important. If appropriate, please just > respond by directing me to the relevant web-services documentation (to date > I have been working from http://www.gbif.org/developer/species and > http://www.gbif.org/developer/occurrence). > > > > My first question is how to request all available taxonomic > classification data for a taxon using GBIF web services? > > > > For example, from Atlas of Living Australia web services, a request for > that information for the species Ecsenius bicolor yields: > > > > kingdom: Animalia > > phylum: Chordata > > subphylum: Vertebrata > > class: Actinopterygii > > superorder: Acanthopterygii > > order: Perciformes > > suborder: Blennioidei > > family: Blenniidae > > genus: Ecsenius > > species: Ecsenius bicolor > > > > From ITIS, I get the somewhat more detailed: > > > > kingdom:Animalia > > subkingdom:Bilateria > > infrakingdom:Deuterostomia > > phylum:Chordata > > subphylum:Vertebrata > > infraphylum:Gnathostomata > > superclass:Osteichthyes > > class:Actinopterygii > > subclass:Neopterygii > > infraclass:Teleostei > > superorder:Acanthopterygii > > order:Perciformes > > suborder:Blennioidei > > family:Blenniidae > > genus:Ecsenius > > species:Ecsenius bicolor > > > > I can currently get the kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus and > species from GBIF but I cannot get ranks like subphylum and superorder etc. > > > > I have found an enumeration of taxonomic ranks within GBIF suggesting > that such ranks are supported: > > http://gbif.github.io/gbif-api/apidocs/org/gbif/api/vocabulary/Rank.html > > > > However, it is not clear to me how to access this information using the > GBIF web services. > > > > Any pointers in the right direction would be very helpful. > > > > Many thanks > > > > Geoff Shuetrim > > Gaia Guide Association > > http://www.gaiaguide.info/ > > _______________________________________________ > > API-users mailing list > > API-users at lists.gbif.org > > http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.gbif.org/pipermail/api-users/attachments/20140827/dd55124e/attachment.html
