Cortexa research tool·biomedical·inaturalist

INaturalist Get Taxon

Get detailed taxonomy information for a species by its iNaturalist taxon ID. Returns scientific name, common names, full taxonomic lineage (kingdom through species), observation count, conservation status, and Wikipedia link. Use iNaturalist_search_taxa first to find taxon IDs. Example: taxon 41482 returns Tursiops truncatus (bottlenose dolphin) with 19000+ observations.

Livelast probed 2026-05-01 01:00Z· 389msCortexa

Status

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

Last probed: 1d ago
Last success: 1d ago
Last latency: 389ms

Schema

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

{
  "properties": {
    "taxon_id": {
      "description": "iNaturalist taxon ID. Examples: 41482 (bottlenose dolphin), 43584 (Homo sapiens), 41944 (Panthera tigris), 48662 (monarch butterfly), 47126 (Sequoia sempervirens).",
      "type": "integer"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "taxon_id"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

Default INaturalist Get Taxon call

public-safeinput

{
  "taxon_id": 1
}

Expected response keys: success

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

Identifiers

Catalog ID: tu_iNaturalist_get_taxon
Tool name: iNaturalist_get_taxon
Added: 2026-05-01 00:58Z
Tags: tooluniverse

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