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GBIF type specimens

GBIF — Global Biodiversity Information Facility

1.1M
records · 2026-07-20
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Type specimens (e.g. holotypes) in GBIF — the highest-provenance, nomenclaturally anchored records.

SourceGBIF — Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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Live endpointhttps://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?limit=0&typeStatus=Holotype
Parsejson · count
Daterecords
2026-07-201,069,550
2026-07-131,072,116
2026-07-061,104,413
2026-06-251,103,626

Machine-readable: /api/research-data?metric=gbif-types · back to all metrics

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