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NCBIDatasets Get Taxonomy

Get detailed taxonomy information from NCBI by taxonomy ID. Returns organism name, rank, full lineage, counts of genes/assemblies/RNA types, and child taxa. Covers all organisms in NCBI Taxonomy including bacteria, archaea, eukaryotes, and viruses. Example: tax_id 9606 returns Homo sapiens with 20,625 protein-coding genes.

Livelast probed 2026-05-01 01:00Z· 86msCortexa

Status

The most recent probe succeeded. Safe to call from the agent today.

Last probed: 1d ago
Last success: 1d ago
Last latency: 86ms

Schema

JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.

{
  "properties": {
    "tax_id": {
      "description": "NCBI Taxonomy ID (numeric). Examples: '9606' (Homo sapiens), '10090' (Mus musculus), '7227' (Drosophila melanogaster), '562' (E. coli).",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "tax_id"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

Default NCBIDatasets Get Taxonomy call

public-safeinput

{
  "tax_id": ""
}

Expected response keys: success

Anonymous-safe example. Rate-limited; no sign-in required.

Identifiers

Catalog ID: tu_NCBIDatasets_get_taxonomy
Tool name: NCBIDatasets_get_taxonomy
Added: 2026-05-01 00:58Z
Tags: tooluniverse

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