all-the-species

Massive list of species.

• information about ~1M species
• common names for 80,149 species
• 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.

created for ecofactbook.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage
• Licenses and Citation
• See Also

Installation

npm i all-the-species

Usage

require('all-the-species').loadSpeciesData(onGotData); //this can take up to 30 seconds

function onGotData(dataSet){
    //print random row from dataset
    console.log(dataSet[Math.floor(Math.random()*dataSet.length)]);

    //get species with common names
    var speciesWithCommonNames = dataSet.filter(row=>row.common_name!='_');
    console.log(speciesWithCommonNames.length, "species have common names");

    // loaded species dataset in 17.326 sec -- 1,037,798 rows
    // 80,149 species have common names

    //each row of dataset looks like this:
    /*
     {
       taxonomy: {
         id: '2433516',              // this is the GBIF id
         kingdom: 'Animalia',
         phylum: 'Chordata',
         class_: 'Mammalia',
         order: 'Carnivora',
         family: 'Eupleridae',
         genus: 'Cryptoprocta',
         species: 'Cryptoprocta ferox'
       },
       common_name: 'Fossa',         // common name or "_" if none known
       category_name: 'Carnivores',  // 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

• common-species - sister module which only includes the 80,149 species with common names. use this if you need a smaller/faster module.