Glasgow Taxonomic Name Server

Developed by Rod Page

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Queries

• Find a name
• Find from id
• List synonyms
• Show classification
• Check names

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Links

Web service

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Related projects

• ITIS
• Species2000
• uBio

Credits

Web Services

Experimental web services are being added to enable other applications to query the database. This page will be updated as new services are added.

WSDL

The web services available are documented in this WSDL file. If your programming language or application can use WSDL fiels, then you should be able to write a client for this server.

Yes, I know this is shocking documentation, I will write more later...

Calling Web services from Microsoft Excel

If you are using Microsoft Excell 2000 or later on Microsoft Windows, this tutorial shows you how to use the web services from within Excel.