Retrieve occurrences of a taxon from GBIF using its scientific name

This service retrieves occurrences of a taxon from GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility). It takes as input a taxon name provided using property schema:name. The reason for using schema:name instead of e.g. dwc:scientificName is that the searched name may be accepted or a synonym. Hence the schema:name property that makes no assumption as to the nature of the name.

Occurrences are represented according to the Darwin-SW specification.

Canonical URL: https://sparql-micro-services.org/service/gbif/getOccurrencesByName_sd/
Input argument: scientific name. Mandatory.
Passed as the object of predicate http://schema.org/name.
Example value: Alburnoides bipunctatus
Service Description graph: https://sparql-micro-services.org/service/gbif/getOccurrencesByName_sd/ServiceDescription
SHACL shapes graph

Try it out

SPARQL query


PREFIX dct:     <http://purl.org/dc/terms/>.
PREFIX dsw:     <http://purl.org/dsw/>.
PREFIX dwc:     <http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/>.
PREFIX dwciri:  <http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/iri/>.
PREFIX schema:  <http://schema.org/>.

SELECT * WHERE {
    ?taxon
        a dwc:Taxon;
        schema:name         "Alburnoides bipunctatus";
        dwc:taxonID         ?acceptedTaxonId;
        dwc:acceptedName    ?acceptedName.

    ?occurrence a           dwc:Occurrence;
        dct:identifier      ?occid;
        schema:url          ?page;

        dsw:occurrenceOf    [ dsw:hasIdentification [ dwciri:toTaxon ?taxon ]];

        dsw:atEvent [
            dwc:recordedBy  ?rightsHolder;
            dwc:eventDate   ?date;
            dsw:locatedAt [
                dwc:country             ?country;
                dwc:countryCode         ?countryCode;
                dwc:decimalLongitude    ?decimalLongitude;
                dwc:decimalLatitude     ?decimalLatitude;
            ];
        ].
}

Output format

SPARQL response