GBIF

• Look up a species nameCheck a scientific name against GBIF's own list and get back the accepted spelling, the rank, and the full classification from kingdom down to species. The step to run over a column of names before anything else: it catches typos, replaces an out-of-date name with the current one, and fills in the family and order nobody wrote down. When GBIF does not recognise a name it says so rather than guessing. No API key required.
• Search for speciesFind species by name when you do not know the exact one. Where 'Look up a species name' answers 'is this name right', this answers 'what names are there like this'. Narrow by rank, by whether the name is current, by whether the organism lives on land, in fresh water or in the sea, or to everything within a group such as Felidae. No API key required.
• Get species detailsEverything GBIF holds about one species: the accepted name and its authorship, the full classification, where it lives, how threatened it is, and the work the name was first published in. Takes the key that 'Look up a species name' and 'Search for species' return. No API key required.
• List common namesWhat people actually call a species, in every language GBIF has recorded - a puma has 230 names across 40-odd languages. Pick a language to get only those, for labelling something in the language your readers speak. No API key required.
• Search occurrence recordsFind records of where a species has actually been found - museum specimens, survey results and citizen-science sightings pooled from thousands of institutions. Every filter is optional and they combine, so one step answers 'jaguars in Brazil since 2020 with a photo' as easily as 'everything in this dataset'. Each record comes back with what was found, where, when, who found it and where the data came from. No API key required.
• Count occurrence recordsHow many records match, without fetching any of them. The same filters as 'Search occurrence records', answering the question you branch on - has this species ever been seen here, is this worth pulling, has anything new turned up - for the cost of one number instead of a page of records. No API key required.
• Get an occurrence recordOne record in full, by the key a search returned: what was found, exactly where and when, who found and identified it, which collection holds it, any photos, and the quality flags GBIF raised on it. No API key required.
• Search datasetsFind the datasets behind the records - who collected what, where, and how much of it. Useful on its own ('what bird datasets does Kenya publish?') and as the step before narrowing a record search to one source. No API key required.
• Get dataset detailsOne dataset in full: what it covers, how many records it holds, who publishes it, the terms it is offered on, and the citation to use when you publish anything based on it. No API key required.
• Search publishersFind the institutions that publish into GBIF - museums, herbaria, universities, government agencies and citizen-science projects - by name or by country, with how many datasets each has published. The far end of the trail that runs from a record to its dataset to whoever stands behind it. No API key required.

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