Phylopic API

Documentation for [*PhyloPic*](https://www.phylopic.org/)'s Application Programming Interface. *PhyloPic* is an open database of freely reusable silhouette images of organisms, searchable by phylogeny.

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Base URL: http://phylopic.org/api/
Auth: bearer_token
Endpoints: 16
Reachable: yes
CORS: unknown
Last checked: 2026-03-14 16:09:14.330971

Links

Homepage: http://tmkeesey.net
API Base: http://phylopic.org/api/

100.0%

Uptime (7d)

308ms

Avg latency (7d)

49

Probes (7d)

Latency (7d)

Success Rate (7d)

Topics

IMAGES, SCIENCE

Endpoints

Method Path Summary Auth Last Status Latency
GET / Returns API information and links to resources. — 200 1100ms
GET /autocomplete Gets suggestions for full names based on partial text. — 200 176ms
GET /collections/{uuid} Links to endpoints for getting all entities of certain types that are in a specified collection. — 404 225ms
GET /contributors Lists all contributing users. — 404 197ms
GET /contributors/{uuid} Returns a specific contributing user. — 404 200ms
GET /images Lists all images, or a filtered subset. — 200 113ms
GET /images/{uuid} Returns data for a specific image. — 404 174ms
GET /licenses Returns a list of licenses. — 404 260ms
GET /namespaces Returns a list of authorized namespaces. — 404 187ms
GET /nodes Lists all nodes, or a filtered subset. — 404 336ms
GET /nodes/{uuid} Returns a specific phylogenetic node. — 404 208ms
GET /nodes/{uuid}/lineage Retrieves the ancestral lineage for a given node. — 404 245ms
GET /ping Checks if the API is operational. — 404 195ms
GET /resolve/{authority}/{namespace} Resolves a list of external identifiers under a single authorized namespace to a single phylogenetic node. — 404 221ms
GET /resolve/{authority}/{namespace}/{objectid} Resolves an external identifier to the closest phylogenetic node. — 404 781ms
GET /root Retrieves the root phylogenetic node (the ancestor of all others). — 404 256ms