IRMNG webservice
As a user or developer you can use the IRMNG webservice to feed your own application with standard IRMNG data.
A non exhaustive list of applications:
- get the IRMNG_ID for your taxon
- check the spelling of your taxa
- get the authority for your taxa
- get the full classification for your taxa
- resolve your unaccepted names to accepted ones
- get all synonyms for a taxon
- fuzzy/near match your species list
- resolve a common name/vernacular to a scientific name
- get the common name(s)/vernacular(s) for a taxon
- get the sources/references for a taxon
- get the IRMNG citation for a taxon
- get the direct children for a taxon
- get all taxa modified during a time interval
- get an external identifier for a taxon
- get the IRMNG_ID for an external identifier/database
- get all distributions for a taxon
- get all attributes for a taxon
We support these methods of accessing the service:
RESTful service
SOAP service
For problems or questions, please contact
info@marinespecies.org
Linking to IRMNG
If you simply want to link to IRMNG, just use this URL: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxlist&tName=Your Species
i.e.
https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxlist&tName=Solea solea
(This assumes that you have no idea if the taxon exists, or you do not want to look up the IRMNG_ID)
If you know the taxon exists, lookup the IRMNG_ID, via the
search interface
, and link to this URL: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=IRMNG_ID
i.e. the IRMNG_ID for
Solea solea
is 10150800:
https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=10150800
Life Science Identifier (LSID)
LSIDs are persistent, location-independent, resource identifiers for uniquely naming biologically significant resources.
The LSID concept introduces a straightforward approach to naming and identifying data resources stored in multiple, distributed data stores in a manner that overcomes the limitations of naming schemes in use today.
More information
here
and
here
.
WoRMS has implemented LSIDs for all its taxonomic names and they are displayed on each taxon page. We have integrated the IRMNG_ID into the LSID, so in fact you can continue using the IRMNG_ID.
For example: the LSID for
Solea solea
is:
urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:10150800
You can resolve an LSID via the various services available.
Example for
Solea solea
:
LSID Resolver
The returned model is
RDF
(XML) with metadata elements from
Darwin Core
and
Dublin Core
.
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