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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.
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Schema
JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.
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Examples (1)
Default CoL Get Children call
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JSON input · 5 lines · 54 chars
Expected response keys: success
Identifiers
- Catalog ID
- tu_CoL_get_children
- Tool name
- CoL_get_children
- Added
- 2026-05-01 00:58Z
- Tags
- tooluniverse