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Observations

Additional information about an observation's taxon

Shows additional information about an observation's taxon given the observation's coordinates, including relevant a conservation status and establishment means

get/observations/{uuid}/taxon_summary

Path parameters

uuidstring uuid required

A single observation UUID

Query parameters

community'true' | 'false'

Show info about the community taxon instead of the observation taxon

Response

An array of quality metrics

wikipedia_summarystring nullable

Summary description of this taxon from Wikipedia

Example response

{
  "listed_taxon": {
    "place": {
      "user": {
        "site": {
          "id": 1,
          "icon_url": "https://static.inaturalist.org/sites/1-logo_square.png",
          "locale": "en",
          "name": "iNaturalist",
          "site_name_short": "iNat",
          "url": "https://www.inaturalist.org"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}