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Get Species Documentation

This documentation describes how to submit requests to the Get Species service.

Service Requests

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• Making REST requests to Get Species
• Making SOAP requests to Get Species

WSDL and Schema Locations

Get Species publishes its API through Web Services Description Language (WSDL) documents, which you can use to construct SOAP requests. XML schemas are also provided for validating the XML output of REST requests.

• https://services.natureserve.org/idd/soap/wsdl/Species.wsdl
• https://services.natureserve.org/docs/schemas/species/CompleteSpeciesSchema.xsd