search_specimens
Pack: idigbio · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/idigbio/mcp
Search ~150M digitized natural-history museum specimen records (plants, animals, fossils) from US collections via iDigBio. Filter by any combination of taxonomy and locality. At least one filter is required. Keyless.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
scientific_name | string | no | Scientific name, e.g. “puma concolor”, “quercus alba”. Matched case-insensitively. |
genus | string | no | Genus, e.g. “acer”, “quercus”, “puma”. |
family | string | no | Family, e.g. “felidae”, “sapindaceae”. |
country | string | no | Country, e.g. “united states”, “canada”. |
state_province | string | no | State or province, e.g. “florida”, “wyoming”. |
recorded_by | string | no | Collector / recorded-by name, e.g. “macginitie”. |
limit | number | no | Max records to return (default 10, max 25). |
Example call
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/idigbio/mcp \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_specimens","arguments":{}}}'Connect
Add this to your MCP client config, or use one-click install buttons:
{
"mcpServers": {
"idigbio": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/idigbio/mcp"
}
}
}See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.