search
ActiveTool of mcp-catalogueoflife
"What is the scientific name of [animal/plant]" / "what family does [species] belong to" / "look up [organism] taxonomy" / "find [genus/family] in the tree of life" / "common name → Latin binomial" / "is [name] a real species" — AUTHORITATIVE taxonomic lookup for any species, genus, family, or higher taxon. Source: Catalogue of Life — the global consensus checklist of every known living organism (~2.1M accepted species names plus synonyms). Returns matching name-usages with scientific name, authorship, rank (kingdom→species), status (accepted | synonym | misapplied), and taxon ID for follow-up calls to `taxon` or `classification`. Filter by `rank` ("species" / "genus" / etc.) when narrowing.
Parameters schema
{
"type": "object",
"examples": [
{
"query": "Panthera leo"
},
{
"rank": "genus",
"limit": 50,
"query": "Canis"
}
],
"required": [
"query"
],
"properties": {
"rank": {
"type": "string",
"description": "e.g. \"species\", \"genus\", \"family\""
},
"limit": {
"type": "number",
"description": "1-1000 (default 25)."
},
"query": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Free-text search (e.g. \"Panthera leo\")."
},
"offset": {
"type": "number"
},
"status": {
"type": "string",
"description": "accepted | synonym | bare_name | missapplied | …"
},
"dataset": {
"type": "string",
"description": "ChecklistBank dataset key (default \"3LR\" = COL latest release)."
}
}
}No endpoints wrapped at confidence ≥ 0.70.
Parent server
mcp-catalogueoflife
https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-catalogueoflife
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