Hello

You will have to use taxonKey for the species of your interest i.e. http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/count?taxonKey=2974832​ should produce required result.

Regards,

Vijay

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Vijay Barve

Post Doctoral Research Associate

Informatics Division

Florida Museum of Natural History

1659 Museum Road (Dickinson Hall)

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL 32611

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From: API-users <api-users-bounces@lists.gbif.org> on behalf of Mauro Cavalcanti <maurobio@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2019 1:13 PM
To: api-users@lists.gbif.org
Subject: [API-users] Getting number of records for a given scientific name

 

Dear ALL,

Is there a way to retrieve the number of georeferenced records for a given scientific name using a GBIF API call?

I tried something like "http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/count?ScientificName=Vicia+faba" but it of course didn't work.

I realize this is a rather silly question, but most of the time I only access the GBIF API using Python (via pygibf) or R (via rgbif), and therefore I'm not used to direct calls to the API (what a shame!).

Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide?

Best regards,

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Dr. Mauro J. Cavalcanti
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