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Cortexa research tool·biomedical·col
CoL Get Children
Get child taxa (immediate subtaxa) of a given taxon in the Catalogue of Life. For example, get all species within a genus, or all genera within a family. Uses the parentId parameter to list direct descendants. Returns child taxon names, ranks, IDs, and status. Use CoL_search_species or CoL_get_taxon to find the parent taxon ID first.
AvailableCortexa
Schema
JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.
JSON · 26 lines · 606 chars
Examples (1)
Default CoL Get Children call
public-safeinput
JSON · 3 lines · 20 chars
Expected response keys: success
Anonymous-safe example. Rate-limited; no sign-in required.
Identifiers
- Catalog ID
- tu_CoL_get_children
- Tool name
- CoL_get_children
- Added
- 2026-05-01 00:58Z
- Tags
- tooluniverse