OBIS

live Utility

OBIS (Ocean Biodiversity Information System) MCP.

3 tools
0ms auth
free tier 50 calls/day

Tools

get_taxon

Resolve a marine species/genus/family name against OBIS to its taxon record (taxon ID, rank, accepted name, kingdom/phylum/family/genus, and total occurrence-record count). OBIS = global ocean biodive

No parameters required.

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find_occurrences

Find georeferenced marine occurrence records (latitude, longitude, date, depth, country, locality, basis of record) for a scientific name from OBIS. Optionally filter by date range. Returns the total

No parameters required.

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get_statistics

Get aggregate OBIS statistics for a marine taxon: total occurrence records, distinct species/taxa, contributing datasets, and the observed year range.

No parameters required.

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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/obis/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/obis/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"get_taxon","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("get_taxon", {});
ask_pipeworx 
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("obis (ocean biodiversity information system) mcp");