# lilambd Biodiversity Place Lookup

> lilambd Biodiversity Place Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from api.lilambd.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-11-04).

Returns biodiversity and species data for a geographic location using latitude and longitude coordinates, optionally querying GBIF for live species observations.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.lilambd.com/biodiversity/place?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-11-04
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/lilambd-biodiversity-place-lookup-a7707830
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_kjK38Tfa0hGni85z8yYIc

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability lilambd-biodiversity-place-lookup-a7707830
```

Example prompt: What are the top 10 species recorded near latitude 51.5074 and longitude -0.1278? Go ahead and include the live GBIF species lookup.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need species occurrence and biodiversity data for a specific geographic point, especially when you want GBIF-backed live observations. It is ideal for ecological research, nature apps, field surveys, and location-aware biodiversity queries. Prefer this over general geospatial APIs when the specific need is biological species data rather than weather, terrain, or demographic information.

## Known failure modes

- Missing or invalid lat/lon parameters returns an error
- Out-of-range coordinates (e.g. lat > 90) may return no results or an error
- GBIF API unavailability may cause degraded or empty species data when live lookup is enabled
- Locations with no GBIF observations return an empty species list
- top parameter outside 1-25 range may be rejected or clamped
- Payment not received results in HTTP 402 response

## How this service works

A crossing for play, feeling, language, science and computation — creating states that do not have names yet.

## Output

A JSON object containing biodiversity data for the specified geographic location, including a ranked list of species (up to 25) observed near those coordinates, potentially enriched with live occurrence records from GBIF such as species names, observation counts, and taxonomic details.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "queryParams"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "lat",
      "lon"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "lat": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Latitude"
      },
      "lon": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Longitude"
      },
      "top": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Top species to return (1-25)"
      },
      "species": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "false to skip the live GBIF species lookup"
      }
     },
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "string"
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "json"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json"
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/lilambd-biodiversity-place-lookup-a7707830/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.lilambd.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.lilambd.com/llms.txt)