Latin name gender matching

[gbif]

Latin name gender matching

[sckott]

Thanks for your question @qgroom

The short answer is: I don't know for sure how to get the same behavior.

pygbif does have name_lookup which uses the /species/search route here https://www.gbif.org/developer/species#searching - more of a full text search of names. That method gets closer, but still gives a lot of results of the a ending:

from pygbif import species
z = species.name_lookup(q='Lantanophaga pusillidactyla', status = "ACCEPTED")
In [14]: [ w['scientificName'] for w in z['results'] ]
Out[14]:
['Lantanophaga pusillidactyla',
 'Lantanophaga pusillidactyla (Walker, 1864)',
 'Lantanophaga pusillidactyla (Walker, 1864)',
 'Lantanophaga pusillidactyla (Walker, 1864)',
 'Lantanophaga pusillidactyla (Walker, 1864)',
 'Lantanophaga pusillidactyla (Walker, 1864)',
 'Lantanophaga pusillidactyla (Walker, 1864)',
 'Lantanophaga pusillidactyla (Walker, 1864)',
 'Lantanophaga pusillidactyla Walker 1864',
 'Lantanophaga pusillidactyla (Walker, 1864)',
 'Lantanophaga pusillidactyla (Walker, 1864)',
 'Lantanophaga pusillidactyla (Walker, 1864)',
 'Lantanophaga pusillidactyla (Walker, 1864)',
 'Lantanophaga pusillidactyla (Walker, 1864)',
 'Lantanophaga pusillidactylus (Walker, 1864)',
 'Lantanophaga pusillidactylus (Walker, 1864)',
 'Lantanophaga pusillidactylus (Walker, 1864)',
 'Lantanophaga pusillidactylus (Walker, 1864)',
 'Lantanophaga pussillidactyla (Walker, 1864)',
# cutoff ...] 

I had a look at the gbif site with browser dev tools, but i think it's a slightly different internal set of APIs they're using.

@timrobertson100 any thoughts on how to replicate what the gbif website does wrt name searching?

[MortenHofft]

The species match API might be what you are looking for?
http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/match?name=Lantanophaga%20pusillidactyla

Or for species search it might be good to include a datasetKey=backbone
https://api.gbif.org/v1/species/search?q=Lantanophaga%20pusillidactyla&datasetKey=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c

does that help?

[sckott]

thanks @MortenHofft - right, we have that route implemented in name_backbone method

Perhaps species.name_backbone('Lantanophaga pusillidactyla') does what you want @qgroom

[qgroom]

Thanks, I'll give it a try and get back to you.

[qgroom]

Yes, that works. Perhaps a note is required in the documentation, but then I don't suppose anyone will read it.

[sckott]

glad it works.

I don't suppose anyone will read it.

agree, but i guess its the right thing to do