Table 5.

A method to search for taxa in the Polytraits database. Returns matching taxon identifiers.

URL: http://polytraits.lifewatchgreece.eu/taxon/{query}/{format}/?{other parameter key value pairs}

Example: Retrieve all taxon information about taxa starting with "Syllis" and return them as a numeric array: http://polytraits.lifewatchgreece.eu/taxon/Syllis/json/?exact=0&verbose=1&assoc=0

Parameter name	data type	allowed values	default value	Parameter Note	Output
query	string	any taxon name		spaces have to be url-encoded, case-insensitive
format	string	json|xml	json	Optional. Currently only json is implemented
exact	boolean	1|0	1	optional	When true, returns only the exact match for the query string. When false, returns all matches beginning with the query string.
verbose	boolean	1|0	0	optional	When true, returns per taxon: array (taxon ID, taxon name, authority, valid taxon ID, valid taxon name, valid authority, status, source of synonymy, rank). When false, returns per taxon: array (taxon ID, taxon name).
assoc	boolean	1|0	0	optional	When true, an associative array is returned with the taxon ID as keys. When false, a numeric array is returned.