API taxonomy: list of available ranks?

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Hi! I wasn’t sure where to put dev-related questions, so thought I’d try here first. Feel free to move this if I’m posting in the wrong spot.

I’m a software dev/naturalist and was tinkering around with your API (old & new). Specifically, I’m working on a way to visualize relationships between species/taxa - to get a better sense of how new species I see relate to one another in the taxonomic tree.

I was hoping to get a full list of the “rank” option. The /taxa endpoint has a convenient dropdown in the API documentation, but when pinging the actual data set, it doesn’t appear to be exhaustive. I noticed that some results come back with ranks of “section”, “subterclass” and more. I can keep experimenting and flesh out the full list myself, but I was wondering if it was documented anywhere?

Thanks!

Ben

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I suspect if you go here
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations

Click filters and then either the rank high or rank low that is likely complete

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Nice find! Yeah, that looks more exhaustive than that other location I posted. Thanks very much!

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