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.

{
  "properties": {
    "tsn": {
      "description": "ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number. Examples: '180092' (Homo sapiens), '180091' (Homo), '573082' (Pan troglodytes), '174371' (Drosophila melanogaster).",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "tsn"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

Default ITIS Get Hierarchy call

public-safeinput

{
  "tsn": ""
}

Expected response keys: success

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Identifiers

Catalog ID: tu_ITIS_get_hierarchy
Tool name: ITIS_get_hierarchy
Added: 2026-04-30 22:47Z
Tags: tooluniverse

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