common-species

common-species

List of ~80K common species.

• information about 80,149 species with common names
• human-readable categories per-species
• emoji icons for each species. 🦀🌲🦊🐟🌺☘️

includes animals, plants, bugs, bacteria, etc, all of it!

based on permissibly-licensed datasets from GBIF.

this is a smaller alternative to all-the-species.

created for ecofactbook.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage
• Licenses and Citation
• See Also

Installation

npm i common-species

Usage

var t0=Date.now();

require('common-species').loadSpeciesData(onGotData);

function onGotData(dataSet){

    //print random item from dataset
    console.log(dataSet[Math.floor(Math.random()*dataSet.length)]);

    // loading species dataset...
    //done loading species dataset. 6.385 sec 80149 rows

    //each row of dataset looks like this:
    /*
     {
       taxonomy: {
         id: '1650158',                           // this is the GBIF id
         kingdom: 'Animalia',
         phylum: 'Arthropoda',
         class_: 'Insecta',
         order: 'Diptera',
         family: 'Culicidae',
         genus: 'Anopheles',
         species: 'Anopheles funestus'
       },
       common_name: 'African malaria mosquito',  // common name or "_" if none known
       category_name: 'Insects',                 // human-readable category name
       icon: '🦟'                                // emoji icon for this species
     }

     */

}

Licenses and Citation

Raw list derived from Species occurance data [CC0 filtered]

• GBIF.org (5 July 2018) GBIF Occurrence Download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.ljofvp

Species common names partially derived from UnitProt Controlled vocabulary of species under license CC by 4.0

See Also

• all-the-species - information about 1M species