PESI webservices


As a user or developer you can use the PESI webservice to feed your own application with standard PESI taxonomy.
A non exhaustive list of possible applications:
  • get the GUID for a taxon
  • check the spelling of a taxa
  • get the authority for a taxa
  • resolve an unaccepted name to an accepted one
  • get the citation for a taxon
  • get the scientific name for a given common name/vernacular
  • get the common name(s) for a GUID
  • fuzzy match one or more Scientific Names
  • get all synonyms for a GUID
  • get all distributions for a GUID
  • get all vernaculars for a GUID
  • get taxa by vernacular name
For problems or questions, please contact info@eu-nomen.eu

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Available methods of accessing the service

RESTful service

SOAP Service

Webservice - change log
  • 2016年12月23日 - Add RESTful service
  • 2016年12月07日 - PESIDistributions: renamed MRGID to locationID, and use a URI
  • 2016年12月06日 - added optional offset parameter to most functions
  • 2016年03月10日 - added function getPESISourcesByGUID
  • 2016年03月10日 - added synonym type to function getPESISynonymsByGUID output
  • 2013年10月21日 - v0.7 added function getPESIDistributionsByGUID
  • 2013年08月08日 - v0.6 added function matchTaxa to fuzzy match multiple taxa at once
  • 2012年10月15日 - v0.5 added function getPESISynonymsByGUID
  • 2012年08月13日 - v0.4 added match_type to the object PESIRecord, you may need to update your bindings
  • 2012年08月10日 - v0.3 added function matchTaxon
  • 2011年08月08日 - v0.2 added vernaculars
  • 2011年04月04日 - v0.1 initial release

Linking to PESI

If you simply want to link to PESI, just use this URL: http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=[GUID]
You can lookup the GUID, via the search interface

i.e. the GUID for Solea solea is urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127160: http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127160



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