I know there are a lot of various code snippets / tools / projects that have been mentioned on the forum at times (as an aside, putting together a wiki that consolidates them all in 1 place would be very helpful), to the point where I can’t remember what is out there. Is there one out there that al…

By “localized” do you mean in a particular language or set to a particular iNat place? (As an example, Willow Ptarmigan and Willow Grouse are both English common names, but the second one is set to the UK.) Assuming you mean in a particular language, I would use the tool that pisum built and pass …

[image] jwidness: will give you taxa within Fagaceae with their Simplified Chinese common names this works fine for a limited set of taxa, but if you want Chinese names for all taxa, i would think the easiest way to get this is from the DWCA taxon export.

Sure, but the original question said “a selected part of”, and the DWCA requires an extra step (to match the Chinese names to the taxon info* via the taxon ID). *by taxon info I mean the scientific name, ancestry, etc.

Thank you Jane, this is what I’m looking for. (And this is the right place, LOL.) the DWCA requires an extra step (to match the Chinese names to the taxon info* via the taxon ID). Indeed, and it’s also not up-to-date with iNat database. @pisum Great job, much appreciated. API limit up to 10000…

[image] jdmore: And incidentally, I notice that the “synonym” in this case is also the name of an active taxon in iNaturalist, so some curator clean-up will be needed… On the other hand: https://jumear.github.io/stirfry/iNatAPIv1_taxa.html?taxon_id=64070&is_active=any “Boechera 64070” is in…

[image] aspidoscelis: In the context of taxon-change-synonymy, I don’t think it’s a problem for a synonym to also be the name of an active taxon. In the context of iNaturalist, the intent is always to have a single active taxonomic concept for each scientific name at any given time. Otherwis…

[image] jdmore: In the context of iNaturalist, the intent is always to have a single active taxonomic concept for each scientific name at any given time. Otherwise iNat users would be confronted with a multiple-choice question when trying assign their chosen name to an observation, and the vast …

[image] aspidoscelis: I’m aware of that. Yes, sorry, I knew that but was mentioning it for the record for other readers. [image] aspidoscelis: “current_synonymous_taxon_ids”:[868981,902757,1068235] I don’t see it defined in a quick check of the API documentation, but it’s surely to be…

[image] jdmore: Yes, sorry, I knew that but was mentioning it for the record for other readers. No worries; just wasn’t sure what to make of it. :-) [image] jdmore: But technically those three taxa would in fact be synonyms of Boechera 64070 if it were ever to become the active Boechera …

[image] jdmore: As in most taxonomic works, by seeing the other ICNafp-compliant names (= types) included in and excluded from the circumscription, and by further discussion when needed (which in iNat generally takes place on taxon flags). BTW, this is a case where USDA PLANTS gets it right. …

Is there a tool / code snippet that allows downloading of taxonomy data from the site?

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Is there a tool / code snippet that allows downloading of taxonomy data from the site?

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