Hi Markus, Thanks for the explanation, and for the tip about "*" in the typeStatus field (I didn't realise we could use wildcards in that field). This get's me the info I need :)
Regards, Rod On 22 July 2016 at 13:32, Markus D?ring <mdoering at gbif.org> wrote: > Hi Rod, > > this is a known but apparently badly documented issue. See the list > conversation with James we had before. > http://lists.gbif.org/pipermail/api-users/2014-December/000102.html > > Basically we changed ChecklistBank to only deal with nominal types and > leave the type specimens to the occurrence store. > This has some issues and API implications. We went live before we made the > change, so the REST resource is now badly named. Also we lose some type > specimen information that comes in through the types and specimen extension > for checklists. We could consider to also index these into the occurrence > store though in the future. > > An example of a working nominal type species for a genus: > http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/100535465/ > http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/100535465/typeSpecimens > > Type specimens for your species: > http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?taxonKey=5231190&typeStatus=* > > best, > Markus > > > > On 22 Jul 2016, at 13:50, Roderic D. M. Page <rdmpage at gmail.com> wrote: > > According to the docs I should be able to get the type specimens for a > species using: > > http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/5231190/typeSpecimens (the example given > on http://www.gbif.org/developer/species ) > > But this returns > > {"offset":0,"limit":20,"endOfRecords":true,"results":[]} > > This species has A LOT of types, see http://www.gbif.org/species/5231190, so > something seems amiss... > > Regards, > > Rod > > > _______________________________________________ > API-users mailing list > API-users at lists.gbif.org > http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.gbif.org/pipermail/api-users/attachments/20160722/dc01deee/attachment.html>
