Hi Peter, I am surprised we show numOccurrences in the search results. As this is changing in real time we cannot store that in our search index. I would think this property should not be exposed in species search results. The best way to get occurrence counts is using the occurrence metrics service btw, not the search: http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/count?taxonKey=3134959 <http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/count?taxonKey=3134959> http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/3134959 <http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/3134959> Markus

On 17 Nov 2015, at 16:17, Peter Desmet <peter.desmet.work@gmail.com> wrote:

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-bb0... <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 <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 <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 <http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/3134959>) than the species search API? E.g. numOccurrences, descriptions, etc.

Cheers,

Peter

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