Hi Markus, On 17 Jun, 2014, at 12:24 am, Markus D?ring <mdoering at gbif.org> wrote: > the correct call to the species match service is this: > http://api.gbif.org/v0.9/species/match?name=Hoolock+hoolock%E2%80%9D > > I'm surprised it did work before, I don't think we changed the URL in this > release. > We *did* finally do a new deploy though yesterday morning so you should see a > slightly enhanced occurrence API now. /species?name=? is listed as a search method in http://www.gbif.org/developer/species#searching, and it does exactly what I need: /species/match won?t work for me since it only searches the Backbone Taxonomy, while I need to look for names across all the checklists on GBIF.
I can use /species/search and then filter out non-perfect matches, but if you have any plans to reinstate /species?name=?, that would be very helpful! cheers, Gaurav
