# All gbif taxon data
**URL:** https://discourse.gbif.org/t/all-gbif-taxon-data/2199
**Category:** Miscellaneous
**Created:** [June 2, 2020, 9:59am UTC](https://discourse.gbif.org/t/all-gbif-taxon-data/2199 "2020-06-02T09:59:31Z")
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### Author:  [@Sylvain\_Ard](https://discourse.gbif.org/u/Sylvain_Ard)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2020, 9:59am UTC](https://discourse.gbif.org/t/all-gbif-taxon-data/2199/1 "2020-06-02T09:59:31Z")
Hi,
I would all the gbif taxon data in CSV or another format for a website. Is it available please ?
Thank you.
Bye
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### Author:  [@dnoesgaard](https://discourse.gbif.org/u/dnoesgaard)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2020, 10:37am UTC](https://discourse.gbif.org/t/all-gbif-taxon-data/2199/2 "2020-06-02T10:37:27Z")
Hi there,
You can download the GBIF backbone taxonomy as a DwC-Archive: [http://rs.gbif.org/datasets/backbone/backbone-current.zip](http://rs.gbif.org/datasets/backbone/backbone-current.zip)
Or—if you only interested in taxa for which GBIF has known occurrences, you can download a species list from here: [https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/download](https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/download)
/Daniel
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### Author:  [@Sylvain\_Ard](https://discourse.gbif.org/u/Sylvain_Ard)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2020, 11:27am UTC](https://discourse.gbif.org/t/all-gbif-taxon-data/2199/3 "2020-06-02T11:27:19Z")
Thank you but I see in taxon.tsv that there are 6 500 000 of taxa but in your website it is precied that there are 1 500 000 000 taxa ?!
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### Author:  [@Sylvain\_Ard](https://discourse.gbif.org/u/Sylvain_Ard)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2020, 11:31am UTC](https://discourse.gbif.org/t/all-gbif-taxon-data/2199/4 "2020-06-02T11:31:14Z")
and for your second list I get a 500 error
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### Author:  [@dnoesgaard](https://discourse.gbif.org/u/dnoesgaard)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2020, 11:47am UTC](https://discourse.gbif.org/t/all-gbif-taxon-data/2199/5 "2020-06-02T11:47:30Z")
The [backbone](https://www.gbif.org/dataset/d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c) currently has ~3.5M accepted names. In addition, there are ~2.1M synonyms plus names with other statuses (see the browser here: [https://www.gbif.org/species/search?dataset\_key=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c&origin=SOURCE&status=ACCEPTED&advanced=1](https://www.gbif.org/species/search?dataset_key=d7dddbf4-2cf0-4f39-9b2a-bb099caae36c&origin=SOURCE&status=ACCEPTED&advanced=1))
The number of occurrence records, i.e. evidence of a given taxon at a specific time and place, is currently 1.4B ([https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?q=](https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?q=))
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### Author:  [@Sylvain\_Ard](https://discourse.gbif.org/u/Sylvain_Ard)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2020, 11:52am UTC](https://discourse.gbif.org/t/all-gbif-taxon-data/2199/6 "2020-06-02T11:52:21Z")
oh I succeeded to open your second link
why there are only 6 000 000 taxa in the first link and 1 500 000 000 in the second ?
is mysql supports the integration of second simple dataset ?
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### Author:  [@dnoesgaard](https://discourse.gbif.org/u/dnoesgaard)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2020, 12:10pm UTC](https://discourse.gbif.org/t/all-gbif-taxon-data/2199/7 "2020-06-02T12:10:00Z")
The first number is NAMES of taxa—the second number is OCCURRENCES of taxa.
Programmatic access is also available through the GBIF API: [https://www.gbif.org/developer/species](https://www.gbif.org/developer/species)
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### Author:  [@Sylvain\_Ard](https://discourse.gbif.org/u/Sylvain_Ard)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2020, 12:11pm UTC](https://discourse.gbif.org/t/all-gbif-taxon-data/2199/8 "2020-06-02T12:11:09Z")
what are occurences please ?
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### Author:  [@dnoesgaard](https://discourse.gbif.org/u/dnoesgaard)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2020, 12:27pm UTC](https://discourse.gbif.org/t/all-gbif-taxon-data/2199/9 "2020-06-02T12:27:37Z")
An occurrence is a record of evidence of a given taxon at a specific time and place. These can be derived from e.g. museum specimens ([example](https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/1135437949)) or citizen science ([example](https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/2573943555)) projects.
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### Author:  [@Sylvain\_Ard](https://discourse.gbif.org/u/Sylvain_Ard)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2020, 1:01pm UTC](https://discourse.gbif.org/t/all-gbif-taxon-data/2199/10 "2020-06-02T13:01:39Z")
OK thank you so the 6 000 000 records dataset is enough for me, my server doesn’t has the capacity for the second dataset
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.gbif.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2020, 11:01pm UTC](https://discourse.gbif.org/t/all-gbif-taxon-data/2199/11 "2020-07-02T23:01:41Z")
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