common-species
List of ~80K common species.
- information about 80,149 species with common names
- human-readable categories per-species
- emoji icons for each species.
🦀 🌲 🦊 🐟 🌺 ☘️
includes animals, plants, bugs, bacteria, etc, all of it!
based on permissibly-licensed datasets from GBIF.
this is a smaller alternative to all-the-species.
created for ecofactbook.
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Installation
npm i common-species
Usage
var t0=Date.now();
require('common-species').loadSpeciesData(onGotData);
function onGotData(dataSet){
//print random item from dataset
console.log(dataSet[Math.floor(Math.random()*dataSet.length)]);
// loading species dataset...
//done loading species dataset. 6.385 sec 80149 rows
//each row of dataset looks like this:
/*
{
taxonomy: {
id: '1650158', // this is the GBIF id
kingdom: 'Animalia',
phylum: 'Arthropoda',
class_: 'Insecta',
order: 'Diptera',
family: 'Culicidae',
genus: 'Anopheles',
species: 'Anopheles funestus'
},
common_name: 'African malaria mosquito', // common name or "_" if none known
category_name: 'Insects', // human-readable category name
icon: '🦟' // emoji icon for this species
}
*/
}
Licenses and Citation
Raw list derived from Species occurance data [CC0 filtered]
- GBIF.org (5 July 2018) GBIF Occurrence Download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.ljofvp
Species common names partially derived from UnitProt Controlled vocabulary of species under license CC by 4.0
See Also
- all-the-species - information about 1M species