GBIF Species Intelligence Normalizer

Search the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and receive clean, deduplicated biodiversity occurrence records with accepted taxonomy, normalized country codes, consistent record fields, and direct source links. GBIF is a global open-data infrastructure used by researchers, conservation teams, environmental consultants, and biodiversity analysts.

Why use this Actor?

GBIF records come from thousands of institutions and vary in naming, casing, locality fields, and taxonomic spelling. This Actor resolves the requested name through GBIF's taxonomic backbone, uses the accepted GBIF taxon key for occurrence search, removes duplicate occurrence keys, and preserves the original verbatim scientific name for auditability.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
scientificName	string	Yes	Species, genus, or other name understood by GBIF.
country	string	No	Two-letter ISO country code, such as KE or GB.
maxResults	integer	No	Maximum records (1–100). Default: 20.

Example input

{"scientificName":"Panthera leo","country":"KE","maxResults":10}

Example normalized output

{
  "occurrenceKey": "1234567890",
  "taxon": {
    "acceptedName": "Panthera leo (Linnaeus, 1758)",
    "canonicalName": "Panthera leo",
    "rank": "SPECIES",
    "taxonomicStatus": "ACCEPTED",
    "gbifTaxonKey": 5219404,
    "confidence": 99
  },
  "verbatimScientificName": "Panthera leo",
  "country": "KE",
  "eventDate": "2020-01-15",
  "basisOfRecord": "HUMAN_OBSERVATION",
  "decimalLatitude": -1.29,
  "decimalLongitude": 36.82,
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/1234567890"
}

Use cases

• Biodiversity and conservation research
• Environmental impact assessment data preparation
• Species-distribution and ecological modelling
• Museum, university, and citizen-science dataset harmonization
• AI/ML training-data preparation with traceable source records

Data source and attribution

Data is retrieved live from the GBIF Species API and GBIF Occurrence Search API. Please follow the GBIF data-use and citation guidance.

Output locations

The Actor writes normalized records to the default dataset. It also provides a formatted summary in the OUTPUT key-value record, the complete array in RESULTS, and machine-readable run statistics in STATS.