SPARQL micro-service to retrieve from GBIF the synonyms of a taxon using its name identifier (GBIF key)

This service retrieves the list of synonyms of a taxon from GBIF's backbone taxonomy (Global Biodiversity Information Facility). It takes as input the accepted name identifier (GBIF key) provided using property dwc:acceptedNameUsageID.

In the graph produced, the taxon is represented as an instance of the dwc:Taxon class, related to the synonyms with the http://taxref.mnhn.fr/lod/property/hasSynonym property. Each synonym comes with the following information: scientific name (dwc:scientificName and dwc:scientificNameID), scientific name authorship (dwc:scientificNameAuthorship), URL of the taxon name web page (`schema:sameAs`).

Canonical URL: https://sparql-micro-services.org/service/gbif/getSynonymsByID_sd/
Input argument: taxon name identifier (GBIF key). Mandatory.
Passed as the object of predicate http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/acceptedNameUsageID.
Example value: 7707728
Service Description graph: https://sparql-micro-services.org/service/gbif/getSynonymsByID_sd/ServiceDescription
SHACL shapes graph: https://sparql-micro-services.org/service/gbif/getSynonymsByID_sd/ShapesGraph

Try it out

SPARQL query


    prefix dwc: <http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/>
    prefix taxrefp: <http://taxref.mnhn.fr/lod/property/> .

    SELECT * WHERE {
        ?taxon a dwc:Taxon;
            dwc:acceptedNameUsageID     "7707728";
            dwc:acceptedNameUsage       ?acceptedName;
            taxrefp:hasSynonym          ?synonym.

        ?synonym
            dwc:scientificName           ?name;
            dwc:scientificNameAuthorship ?authorship.
    }

Output format

SPARQL response