[API-users] numOccurrences always 0 for species

[Peter Desmet]

Hi,

In the species/search API, one of the properties of a taxon is
"numOccurrences", which I assume is the number of occurrences across GBIF
for this taxon. The value seems to be always "0" though.

Example:

http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/search?datasetKey=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c&rank=species&status=accepted

First result:

http://www.gbif.org/species/3134959

On that page you can see 47,617 occurrences, 332 infraspecies. The API
however gives:

numOccurrences: 0
numDescendants: 332 (= correct)

Is this a bug?

Related:

- I know I can find the number of occurrences for a taxon by doing an
occurrence search (http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?taxonKey=3134959),
but that means doing an extra call per taxon.

- Why does the species API list far fewer properties per taxon (
http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/3134959) than the species search API? E.g.
numOccurrences, descriptions, etc.

Cheers,

Peter
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