# Suverse Biodiversity Occurrence Search

> Suverse Biodiversity Occurrence Search is a paid API for AI agents from proxy.suverse.io, paid per call via x402, $0.07/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Search GBIF's billions of georeferenced species occurrence records by scientific name to retrieve sightings, specimens, and dataset provenance.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://proxy.suverse.io/v1/data/suverse-biodiversity-occurrence-search
- Price: $0.07/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/suverse-biodiversity-occurrence-search-b98acf25
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_9P6I4uh9JdnoTHedbRtlG

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 suverse-biodiversity-occurrence-search-b98acf25 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search GBIF occurrence records for 'Panthera leo' and give me all georeferenced sightings with their coordinates and dataset sources.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need authoritative, globally aggregated species occurrence data backed by GBIF's billions of records without managing your own GBIF API key. It is ideal for range mapping, presence/absence checks, specimen research, and biodiversity analytics where georeferenced, provenance-tagged records are required. Prefer this over raw GBIF API access when operating in a keyless, pay-per-call agent context.

## Known failure modes

- Unknown or misspelled scientific name returns empty result set
- Rate limiting or payment failure returns 402 response
- Ambiguous taxon name may return records across multiple species
- Very common species may return truncated result sets requiring pagination
- Network timeout for queries returning very large occurrence datasets

## How this service works

Search GBIF's billions of occurrence records by scientific name to get georeferenced sightings and specimens with dataset provenance. Keyless. Powers range maps, presence checks and biodiversity analytics.

## Output

Returns a collection of georeferenced occurrence records from GBIF for the queried scientific name, including latitude/longitude coordinates, observation dates, specimen types, collection or observation dataset identifiers, and provenance metadata indicating the source institution or dataset.

## 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",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "properties": {}
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST",
      "PUT",
      "PATCH"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/suverse-biodiversity-occurrence-search-b98acf25/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from proxy.suverse.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/proxy.suverse.io/llms.txt)