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Bio Species

Resolve any organism by scientific or common name to the GBIF taxonomic backbone — the canonical free reference for life on Earth.

$0.001656USDC per call · settled on Base · no subscription, no API key

Overview

Resolve any organism by scientific or common name to the GBIF taxonomic backbone — the canonical free reference for life on Earth. Returns the accepted scientific name + canonical name, taxonomic rank and status, the match type/confidence, the full classification (kingdom → phylum → class → order → family → genus → species), up to 8 English vernacular (common) names, the count of recorded occurrences worldwide, and the GBIF species URL. Biodiversity, ecology, education, and as a taxonomy normalizer for other pipelines. Fuzzy-matches misspellings. CC-BY GBIF data.

Endpoint

MethodEndpointPriceDescription
GET/v1/marketplace/api/bio-species$0.001656Invoke Bio Species (General) and return the upstream response.

How to call it

Requests are paid per call over the x402 protocol. Call the endpoint, receive a 402 Payment Required quote, then repeat the request with the signed payment header. The SDKs do both steps for you.

# 1. Ask for a quote
curl -i https://api.jarvisclaw.ai/v1/marketplace/api/bio-species

# 2. Pay it (the SDK signs and retries for you)
curl -H "X-PAYMENT: <signed-payload>" https://api.jarvisclaw.ai/v1/marketplace/api/bio-species
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