Resolve an organism name to its NCBI taxon id

Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/ena-api/v1/taxon" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."

await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/ena-api/v1/taxon", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});

$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/ena-api/v1/taxon");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);

import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/ena-api/v1/taxon",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "taxa": [
            {
                "rank": "species",
                "tax_id": "9606",
                "lineage": "Eukaryota; Metazoa; Chordata; Craniata; Vertebrata; Euteleostomi; Mammalia; Eutheria; Euarchontoglires; Primates; Haplorrhini; Catarrhini; Hominidae; Homo",
                "division": "HUM",
                "common_name": "human",
                "scientific_name": "Homo sapiens"
            }
        ],
        "count": 1
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-01T16:23:52.544Z",
        "request_id": "de2b5933-c7fb-4df3-be45-83f9c4afea6a"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Taxon resolved",
    "success": true
}