iDigBio Specimens

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iDigBio — search and retrieve ~150M digitized natural-history museum specimen records (plants, animals, fossils) from US collections.

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Tools

search_specimens

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 re

No parameters required.

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get_specimen

Get the full normalized record for a single iDigBio specimen by its uuid. e.g. uuid "0746b188-c390-4ab1-bd20-5489a9c6c33c" (a Puma concolor record). Keyless.

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count_by_field

Get taxonomic/geographic specimen counts grouped by a field (top values + counts) across iDigBio. Optionally scope the counts with taxonomy/locality filters. Keyless.

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/idigbio/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/idigbio/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_specimens","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("search_specimens", {});
ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("idigbio — search and retrieve ~150m digitized natural-history museum specimen records (plants, animals, fossils) from us collections");