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Cortexa research tool·biomedical·itis
ITIS Get Hierarchy
Get the full taxonomic hierarchy for an organism by its ITIS TSN (Taxonomic Serial Number). Returns the complete classification from Kingdom down to the queried taxon level, including intermediate ranks like Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus. Useful for understanding evolutionary relationships and classification. Example: TSN 180092 (Homo sapiens) returns: Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Primates > Hominidae > Homo > Homo sapiens.
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Schema
JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.
JSON · 12 lines · 288 chars
Examples (1)
Default ITIS Get Hierarchy call
public-safeinput
JSON · 3 lines · 15 chars
Expected response keys: success
Anonymous-safe example. Rate-limited; no sign-in required.
Identifiers
- Catalog ID
- tu_ITIS_get_hierarchy
- Tool name
- ITIS_get_hierarchy
- Added
- 2026-04-30 22:47Z
- Tags
- tooluniverse