An NCBI taxonomy node

Code snippets

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

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

$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/uniprot-api/v1/taxonomy");
curl_setopt($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/uniprot-api/v1/taxonomy",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

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

{
    "data": {
        "taxon": {
            "rank": "species",
            "lineage": [
                "cellular organisms",
                "Eukaryota",
                "Opisthokonta",
                "Metazoa",
                "Eumetazoa",
                "Bilateria",
                "Deuterostomia",
                "Chordata",
                "Craniata",
                "Vertebrata",
                "Gnathostomata",
                "Teleostomi",
                "Euteleostomi",
                "Sarcopterygii",
                "Dipnotetrapodomorpha",
                "Tetrapoda",
                "Amniota",
                "Mammalia",
                "Theria",
                "Eutheria",
                "Boreoeutheria",
                "Euarchontoglires",
                "Primates",
                "Haplorrhini",
                "Simiiformes",
                "Catarrhini",
                "Hominoidea",
                "Hominidae",
                "Homininae",
                "Homo"
            ],
            "mnemonic": "HUMAN",
            "taxon_id": 9606,
            "parent_id": 9605,
            "common_name": "Human",
            "scientific_name": "Homo sapiens"
        }
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-01T00:03:28.768Z",
        "request_id": "549cd38c-23db-4dd2-ae82-e90fa76e7c39"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Taxonomy retrieved",
    "success": true
}