Api Endpoint

Saylor Innovations Data Desk

ITIS species taxonomy lookup - scientific name to taxonomic serial number, rank, full kingdom-to-species lineage, child taxa and common names in English and other languages

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Offering

Provider: saylorinnovations.com
Method: GET
Offering type: Api Endpoint
Transport type: http
Category: Science And Education
Delivery: Not provided
Pricing model: Not provided
x402 version: 2

Endpoint context

URL: https://saylorinnovations.com/api/taxonomy/itis
MIME type: Not provided
First seen: 2026-10-16T01:59:13.392Z
Last seen: 2026-11-01T15:15:11.800Z
Tags: taxonomy, itis, species, scientific name, biology

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Payment pricing

x402 payment terms are the authoritative price for calling this endpoint.

Payment option 1: 0.01 USDC
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Atomic price: 93268 · Network: solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp · Asset: So11111111111111111111111111111111111111112 · Scheme: exact

Raw x402 terms

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Observed health

Status: Healthy
Latest latency: 172 ms
Average latency: 686 ms
HTTP status: 402
Last checked: 2026-11-05T07:03:43.968Z
Reachability: 100% over 10 checks

Latency is measured to the first response headers. A reachable result does not verify response accuracy or merchant identity.

Input schema

{
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "properties": {
    "method": {
      "enum": [
        "GET"
      ],
      "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
      "properties": {
        "name": {
          "description": "Scientific name, e.g. Puma concolor",
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "name"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    },
    "type": {
      "const": "http",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Output schema

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "properties": {
    "input": {
      "additionalProperties": false,
      "properties": {
        "method": {
          "enum": [
            "GET"
          ],
          "type": "string"
        },
        "queryParams": {
          "properties": {
            "name": {
              "description": "Scientific name, e.g. Puma concolor",
              "type": "string"
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "name"
          ],
          "type": "object"
        },
        "type": {
          "const": "http",
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "type",
        "method"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    },
    "output": {
      "properties": {
        "example": {
          "properties": {
            "author": {
              "description": "Author name",
              "type": [
                "string",
                "null"
              ]
            },
            "checked_at": {
              "description": "Time the check was run (UTC)",
              "type": [
                "string",
                "null"
              ]
            },
            "child_taxa": {
              "description": "Child taxa",
              "items": {
                "properties": {
                  "name": {},
                  "rank": {},
                  "tsn": {}
                },
                "type": "object"
              },
              "type": [
                "array",
                "null"
              ]
            },
            "common_names": {
              "description": "Common names",
              "items": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "type": "array"
            },
            "common_names_other_languages": {
              "description": "Common names other languages"
            },
            "hierarchy": {
              "items": {
                "properties": {
                  "name": {
                    "description": "Name",
                    "type": "string"
                  },
                  "rank": {
                    "description": "Rank, 1 is highest",
                    "type": "string"
                  },
                  "tsn": {
                    "description": "ITIS taxonomic serial number"
                  }
                },
                "type": "object"
              },
              "type": "array"
            },
            "kingdom": {
              "type": [
                "string",
                "null"
              ]
            },
            "other_matches": {
              "description": "Other candidates that matched the query, lower ranked",
              "items": {
                "properties": {
                  "name": {},
                  "tsn": {}
                },
                "type": "object"
              },
              "type": [
                "array",
                "null"
              ]
            },
            "query": {
              "description": "The query as the server interpreted it",
              "type": [
                "string",
                "null"
              ]
            },
            "rank": {
              "description": "Rank, 1 is highest",
              "type": [
                "string",
                "null"
              ]
            },
            "scientific_name": {
              "description": "Scientific name",
              "type": "string"
            },
            "source": {
              "description": "Data source the values come from",
              "type": [
                "string",
                "null"
              ]
            },
            "tsn": {
              "description": "ITIS taxonomic serial number",
              "type": "string"
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "tsn",
            "scientific_name"
          ],
          "type": "object"
        },
        "type": {
          "const": "json",
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "type"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "input"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}