Dear Scott,

Many thanks for your answer. I also added the "&highertaxonKey=6" param to narrow the results for plant genera only.

To be more precise what I exactly wish to achieve is as follows:

1./
I only want to search within the "Plantae" kingdom.

2./
Say, I look for the GENUS name "Adonis" but I only remember that the name starts with "Ado".

3./
So my ideal API call would run a wildcard search within PLANT GENERA names for "Ado*" and would result in a list of ALL (without limit) plant genera names starting with "Ado*".

I played with the "/species/match", "/species/search" and "/species/suggest" sub-apis and with the "q" and "name" params. They don't accept wildcards and don't give the expected results for name chunks without wildcards.

Now my only hope is that I left out some constellations or misused something.

József


2017-09-06 23:21 keltezéssel, Scott Chamberlain írta:
Have you tried something like 

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

where datasetkey=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c is for the GBIF backbone taxonomy

Scott

On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 2:10 PM Szlamka József <szlajozs@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello to all list members,

I'm new on this list and also new to the GBIF API. I'd like to get a
list of all the genus names occuring in the GBIF database. After several
hours of trying with the API, and no success, I found this mailing list.
I hope that API guru members on the list can show me the right way or
tell if this is not possible at all.

Thank you in advance.

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