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Cortexa research tool·biomedical·col
CoL Search Species
Search the Catalogue of Life (CoL) for species and other taxa by scientific name. CoL is the global index of all known species, compiled from 165+ taxonomic databases covering ~2 million species. Returns taxon IDs, accepted names, ranks, classification hierarchy, and taxonomic status. Use rank parameter to filter by taxonomic level (species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, kingdom).
AvailableCortexa
Schema
JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.
JSON · 33 lines · 717 chars
Examples (1)
Default CoL Search Species call
public-safeinput
JSON · 3 lines · 13 chars
Expected response keys: success
Anonymous-safe example. Rate-limited; no sign-in required.
Identifiers
- Catalog ID
- tu_CoL_search_species
- Tool name
- CoL_search_species
- Added
- 2026-05-01 00:58Z
- Tags
- tooluniverse