Hi,
I tried typeSpecimens function of Species API: http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/2435098/typeSpecimens
It returned non-empty record in summer, but now I get an empty record. Does it work,?
James
Dear James,
indeed we changed ChecklistBank earlier this year to not contain type specimen information anymore. This call now only returns a type species or genus for higher taxa and ChecklistBank is restricted to only deal with names as you can see also in our model diagram: https://github.com/gbif/checklistbank/blob/master/model.pdf?raw=true
Type specimen can be accessed through the regular occurrence API using the TypeStatus filter, in your case of Puma we list 34 specimens: http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?limit=100&taxonKey=2435098&...
I realize the API resource /typeSpecimens makes no sense anymore and should better be called /typification, but we prefer to stay with our existing API for the time being as this would be a breaking change.
It is also not trivial to make sense of the type specimen data as most of them do not mention the typifiedName and one can only assume this is the specimens currently accetped name.
I will update our API docs to document that change, thanks for letting us know!
Markus
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On 18 Dec 2014, at 01:53, Nozomi James Ytow nozomi@biol.tsukuba.ac.jp wrote:
Hi,
I tried typeSpecimens function of Species API: http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/2435098/typeSpecimens
It returned non-empty record in summer, but now I get an empty record. Does it work,?
James _______________________________________________ API-users mailing list API-users@lists.gbif.org http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users
Hi Markus,
thanks for your answer.
It makes sense that ChecklistBank returns only nominal types. Is there concise type species or genus which returns contents? I tried some nominal types which I know but they returned empty records.
James
Hello James,
in the current checklist bank index there is not too much type information available. I hope to improve the situation with my new backbone work I am starting now. But many of the species file checklists have type information, for example "Nesogryllus Perkins, 1899":
http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/131684623 http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/131684623/typeSpecimens
Markus
On 20 Dec 2014, at 09:46, Nozomi James Ytow nozomi@biol.tsukuba.ac.jp wrote:
Hi Markus,
thanks for your answer.
It makes sense that ChecklistBank returns only nominal types. Is there concise type species or genus which returns contents? I tried some nominal types which I know but they returned empty records.
James
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Hi Markus,
http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/131684623 http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/131684623/typeSpecimens
It works fine as a test deta to examine my software code. Thanks!
James
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