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. 2011 Dec 1;40(Database issue):D136–D143. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkr1178

Table 3.

Some useful Entrez queries

all [filter] Retrieves everthing
Specified [property] Formal binomial and trinomial
at or below species level [property]
family [rank] Rank-based query
taxonomy genome [filter] Taxa with a direct link to a genome sequence
2009/10/21:2020 [date] Date-bounded query
mammalia [subtree] All taxa within the Mammalia
extinct [property] Extinct organisms
Terminal [property] Terminal nodes in the tree
loprovencyclife [filter] Entries with LinkOut links to the Encyclopedia of Life

These can be combined in Boolean expressions, e.g. mammalia [subtree] AND specified [prop] AND subspecies [rank] AND 2009 [date].