Match a name to taxonomy
API · /biodiversity-api
Biodiversity API
Match scientific or common species names to the GBIF taxonomic backbone (kingdom to species), search the global species catalogue, fetch full taxon records with vernacular names, and retrieve geo-located occurrence observations. Ideal for nature, education, research, conservation and citizen-science apps.
API health
healthy- Uptime
- 100.00%
- Server probes · 24h
- Avg latency
- 713 ms
- Server probes · 24h
- Subscribers
- 4,129
- active
- Total calls
- 92
- last 7 days
Pricing
Pick a tier — billed monthly, cancel anytime.
Free
Free
- 4,000 calls / month
- 2 requests / second
- Hard cap (429 above quota, no overage)
- 4,000 calls/month, 2 req/s
- Name-match + species search endpoints
- No credit card
Basic
€8.00 /month
- 80,000 calls / month
- 6 requests / second
- Hard cap (429 above quota, no overage)
- 80,000 calls/month, 6 req/s
- All endpoints incl. taxon records + vernacular names
- Commercial use allowed
- Email support
Pro
€24.00 /month
- 450,000 calls / month
- 18 requests / second
- Hard cap (429 above quota, no overage)
- 450,000 calls/month, 18 req/s
- Geo-located occurrence search unlocked
- 99.9% uptime target
- Priority email support
Mega
€69.00 /month
- 2,000,000 calls / month
- 50 requests / second
- Hard cap (429 above quota, no overage)
- 2,000,000 calls/month, 50 req/s
- Bulk occurrence + backbone matching at scale
- 99.95% SLA
- Priority support
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Code snippets
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curl https://api.oanor.com/biodiversity-api/SOME_PATH \
-H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
const res = await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/biodiversity-api/SOME_PATH", {
headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
const data = await res.json();
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/biodiversity-api/SOME_PATH");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
r = requests.get(
"https://api.oanor.com/biodiversity-api/SOME_PATH",
headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."},
)
print(r.json())
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