Description: This is a service that returns basic information about species found using a name search for a particular nation, using the official names for the nation. The search will return zero, one, or many results. The typical reason for running this search is to obtain the species UID which can be used in a subsequent call to retrieve more information about that species.
Service Restrictions: This is a standard service that can be installed at any node, and may return species and UID values for species that are not available via NatureServe Explorer.
The search string. May use asterisks for wildcard searching. Unlike "google" search, mutliple terms must be in the correct order. E.g., "frog*yellow" will not find "the yellow frog", but "the*frog" will find "the yellow frog".
nationCode
string (required)
The two-letter ISO nation abbreviation (e.g., "US" or "CA").
This service searches on the French common name as well for Canadian records. A future enhancement to the XML Payload is to include all the name data being used for the search.
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