---
title: "Get a taxonomy image by taxon"
method: POST
path: "/taxonomy/image"
tags: ["Taxonomy"]
---

# Get a taxonomy image by taxon

`POST /taxonomy/image`

Get an image associated with the specified taxon. By default, in JPEG format, but also available in PNG (accept: image/png), TIFF (accept: accept: image/tiff), and SVG+XML (accept: image/svg+xml) formats.

## Request body

- V2TaxonomyImageRequest
  - `taxon` string
  - `image_size` 'UNSPECIFIED' | 'SMALL' | 'MEDIUM'

## Response `200`

A successful response

## Other responses

- `default` — An unexpected error response.

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