Connects Claude to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility's 2.4 billion occurrence records and backbone taxonomy. Ships with 12 tools covering species name matching, taxonomic lookups, occurrence search with Darwin Core filters (country, bounding box, year, basis of record), dataset metadata, and publisher search. Match a species name to get a taxonKey, then query occurrences by geography or time. Fetch full classification chains, browse child taxa, or aggregate counts by facets like country or year. Useful for ecological research, biodiversity analysis, and any workflow that needs authoritative taxonomic resolution or specimen data. Available over stdio or streamable HTTP, with a public hosted endpoint at gbif.caseyjhand.com.
claude mcp add --transport stdio cyanheads-gbif-mcp-server uvx gbif-mcp-server