Catalogue

Read one animal taxon.

Answers one animal taxon with the common name in every language, the scientific name, habitats, the country observation counts, the full photo credit and the Wikipedia summary in the requested language with an English fallback.

get/animals/{id}

Request

  • Base URL: https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1
  • URL: https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/{id}
  • Auth: none required

Path parameters

idstring required

Slug of the animal taxon, for example red-fox.

Example:red-fox

Species slug, as returned in id by the search endpoint.

Query parameters

lang'en' | 'de' | 'es' | 'fr' | 'it' | 'nl' | 'pt' | 'pl'

Display language of name, category labels and the summary. Falls back to en.

Display language. Default en.

Response

The species. Cached 5 minutes.

Example response

{
  "data": {
    "id": "red-fox",
    "nameSci": "Vulpes vulpes",
    "image": {
      "source": "inaturalist"
    },
    "wikidataId": "Q8332"
  }
}

Changes

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