Global biodiversity data — search species, retrieve taxonomy, and find georeferenced occurrence records via GBIF
GBIF aggregates biodiversity data from thousands of institutions worldwide — over 2 billion occurrence records. Search the taxonomic backbone, get species classification details, and retrieve georeferenced observations filtered by country.
search_species — Full-text search across the GBIF species backbone (e.g., "Homo sapiens", "oak", "Panthera leo")get_species — Detailed taxonomic record by GBIF taxon key: kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genusget_occurrences — Georeferenced observation records for a taxon, optionally filtered by ISO country code# First, search for the species
curl -s -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/gbif/mcp \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_species","arguments":{"query":"Canis lupus","limit":1}}}'
# Then get occurrences with the taxon key, filtered to Germany
curl -s -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/gbif/mcp \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"get_occurrences","arguments":{"key":5219173,"country":"DE","limit":10}}}'
{
"mcpServers": {
"pipeworx-gbif": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-remote@latest", "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/gbif/mcp"]
}
}
}