Hi,
I use the GBIF API with Python and it works very well. But when I use a book on birds of dragonflies or anything the order of species is always the same, but with the GBIF interface how do I get this order rather than alphabetical. I guess one of the metadata fields I can sort on, such the order matches a guide book. Is that true? Any ideas?
If this question is inappropriate, any hints or suggestions are appreciated.
Gilbert
Hi @Gilbert could you let us know if you are looking for occurrences or for taxon names?
Hello Marie,
I am building a website with my photos, with all species I determined. I used GBIF to the hierarchy from biota to kingdom downto species. See Kingdom: Animals
The question is how can order at each level, using the order that a nature guide would do. From example birds used many orders, they always end with Passeriformes, and within they end with finches.
Alphabetical order does not work of course, so I have used prefixed scientific name with number (like 40 for Passeriformes), but I hope you say ‘order by ’ at each rank.
Does that help?