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:

First result:

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