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
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Available methods of accessing the service
RESTful service
- REST Service documentation
SOAP Service
- Web Service Definition Language File: WSDL file
- Brief description: PESINameService description
Webservice - change log
- 2016-12-23 - Add RESTful service
- 2016-12-07 - PESIDistributions: renamed MRGID to locationID, and use a URI
- 2016-12-06 - added optional offset parameter to most functions
- 2016-03-10 - added function getPESISourcesByGUID
- 2016-03-10 - added synonym type to function getPESISynonymsByGUID output
- 2013-10-21 - v0.7 added function getPESIDistributionsByGUID
- 2013-08-08 - v0.6 added function matchTaxa to fuzzy match multiple taxa at once
- 2012-10-15 - v0.5 added function getPESISynonymsByGUID
- 2012-08-13 - v0.4 added match_type to the object PESIRecord, you may need to update your bindings
- 2012-08-10 - v0.3 added function matchTaxon
- 2011-08-08 - v0.2 added vernaculars
- 2011-04-04 - v0.1 initial release
Linking to PESI
If you simply want to link to PESI, just use this URL: 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: taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127160
RESTful service
- REST Service documentation
SOAP Service
- Web Service Definition Language File: WSDL file
- Brief description: PESINameService description
- 2016-12-23 - Add RESTful service
- 2016-12-07 - PESIDistributions: renamed MRGID to locationID, and use a URI
- 2016-12-06 - added optional offset parameter to most functions
- 2016-03-10 - added function getPESISourcesByGUID
- 2016-03-10 - added synonym type to function getPESISynonymsByGUID output
- 2013-10-21 - v0.7 added function getPESIDistributionsByGUID
- 2013-08-08 - v0.6 added function matchTaxa to fuzzy match multiple taxa at once
- 2012-10-15 - v0.5 added function getPESISynonymsByGUID
- 2012-08-13 - v0.4 added match_type to the object PESIRecord, you may need to update your bindings
- 2012-08-10 - v0.3 added function matchTaxon
- 2011-08-08 - v0.2 added vernaculars
- 2011-04-04 - v0.1 initial release
Linking to PESI
If you simply want to link to PESI, just use this URL: 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: taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127160
