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<div class="">this is a known but apparently badly documented issue. See the list conversation with James we had before.</div>
<div class=""><a href="http://lists.gbif.org/pipermail/api-users/2014-December/000102.html" class="">http://lists.gbif.org/pipermail/api-users/2014-December/000102.html</a></div>
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<div class="">Basically we changed ChecklistBank to only deal with nominal types and leave the type specimens to the occurrence store. </div>
<div class="">This has some issues and API implications. We went live before we made the change, so the REST resource is now badly named. Also we lose some type specimen information that comes in through the types and specimen extension for checklists. We could
consider to also index these into the occurrence store though in the future.</div>
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<div class="">An example of a working nominal type species for a genus:</div>
<div class=""><a href="http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/100535465/" class="">http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/100535465/</a></div>
<div class=""><a href="http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/100535465/typeSpecimens" class="">http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/100535465/typeSpecimens</a></div>
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<div class="">Type specimens for your species:</div>
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<div class=""><a href="http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?taxonKey=5231190&typeStatus=*" class="">http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?taxonKey=5231190&typeStatus=*</a></div>
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<div class="">best,</div>
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<div class="">On 22 Jul 2016, at 13:50, Roderic D. M. Page <<a href="mailto:rdmpage@gmail.com" class="">rdmpage@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="">According to the docs I should be able to get the type specimens for a species using:
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<div class=""><a href="http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/5231190/typeSpecimens" class="">http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/5231190/typeSpecimens</a> (the example given on <a href="http://www.gbif.org/developer/species" class="">http://www.gbif.org/developer/species</a>
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<div class="">But this returns</div>
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<pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">{"offset":0,"limit":20,"endOfRecords":true,"results":[]}</pre>
<pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">This species has A LOT of types, see <a href="http://www.gbif.org/species/5231190" class="">http://www.gbif.org/species/5231190</a>, so something seems amiss...</font></pre>
<pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">Regards,</font></pre>
<pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class="">Rod</font></pre>
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