[API-users] typeSpecimens query for species is broken

[Roderic D. M. Page]

Hi Markus,

Thanks for the explanation, and for the tip about "*" in the typeStatus
field (I didn't realise we could use wildcards in that field). This get's
me the info I need :)

Regards,

Rod


On 22 July 2016 at 13:32, Markus Döring <mdoering at gbif.org> wrote:

> Hi Rod,
>
> this is a known but apparently badly documented issue. See the list
> conversation with James we had before.
> http://lists.gbif.org/pipermail/api-users/2014-December/000102.html
>
> Basically we changed ChecklistBank to only deal with nominal types and
> leave the type specimens to the occurrence store.
> This has some issues and API implications. We went live before we made the
> change, so the REST resource is now badly named. Also we lose some type
> specimen information that comes in through the types and specimen extension
> for checklists. We could consider to also index these into the occurrence
> store though in the future.
>
> An example of a working nominal type species for a genus:
> http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/100535465/
> http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/100535465/typeSpecimens
>
> Type specimens for your species:
> http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?taxonKey=5231190&typeStatus=*
>
> best,
> Markus
>
>
>
> On 22 Jul 2016, at 13:50, Roderic D. M. Page <rdmpage at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> According to the docs I should be able to get the type specimens for a
> species using:
>
> http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/5231190/typeSpecimens (the example given
> on http://www.gbif.org/developer/species )
>
> But this returns
>
> {"offset":0,"limit":20,"endOfRecords":true,"results":[]}
>
> This species has A LOT of types, see http://www.gbif.org/species/5231190, so something seems amiss...
>
> Regards,
>
> Rod
>
>
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