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Cortexa research tool·biomedical·eol
EOL Get Hierarchy Entry
Get taxonomy hierarchy (classification tree) for a species from a specific classification system in the Encyclopedia of Life. Returns ancestors (full lineage from root to species), children taxa, synonyms, and source classification (NCBI, GBIF, ITIS, Catalogue of Life). Use EOL_get_page first to find hierarchy_entry_id values from the classifications list. Example: 70872770 is the NCBI hierarchy entry for Homo sapiens, showing the complete lineage from root through Primates to species level.
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Schema
JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.
JSON · 12 lines · 397 chars
Examples (1)
Default EOL Get Hierarchy Entry call
public-safeinput
JSON · 3 lines · 29 chars
Expected response keys: success
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Identifiers
- Catalog ID
- tu_EOL_get_hierarchy_entry
- Tool name
- EOL_get_hierarchy_entry
- Added
- 2026-04-30 22:47Z
- Tags
- tooluniverse