Species Range

{
  "asOf": "2026-10-20T21:04:36.326Z",
  "attribution": "Data: GBIF.org (taxonomy: GBIF Backbone; conservation: IUCN Red List via GBIF). Occurrence counts include only records licensed CC0 or CC BY 4.0; CC BY-NC and unlicensed records are left out, so count…",
  "canonicalName": "Puma concolor",
  "countries": [
    {
      "country": "US",
      "records": 4908
    },
    {
      "country": "AR",
      "records": 3029
    }
  ],
  "countriesShown": 25,
  "degraded": false,
  "disclaimer": "Screening signal computed from the named public source. Not financial, legal or investment advice; provided as is. Verify at the source before acting.",
  "notChecked": [
    "the true geographic range (records cluster where observers live)",
    "introduced versus native status",
    "…1 more"
  ],
  "previousFiveYearRecords": 1991,
  "query": "Puma concolor",
  "reasons": [
    "A change in record counts mostly reflects changes in observer activity and data publishing, not the species' fortunes.",
    "Data: GBIF.org (taxonomy: GBIF Backbone; conservation: IUCN Red List via GBIF). Occurrence counts include only records licensed CC0 or CC BY 4.0; CC BY-NC and unlicensed records are left out, so count…"
  ],
  "recentFiveYearRecords": 2079,
  "reportingChangePct": 4.4,
  "source": "GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility)",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.gbif.org",
  "summary": "Puma concolor: 14668 records, top countries US, AR, BR, EC, MX; reporting up 4.4% in the last 5 years vs the 5 before.",
  "taxonKey": 2435099,
  "totalRecords": 14668,
  "verdict": "WIDELY_RECORDED"
}

# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://biodiversity.x402tookit.com/species-range?name=Puma+concolor'

# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://biodiversity.x402tookit.com/species-range?name=Puma+concolor' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode

// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// Pays at most $0.03 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.03" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.03 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbiodiversity.x402tookit.com%2Fspecies-range
const res = await pay("https://biodiversity.x402tookit.com/species-range?name=Puma+concolor");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());

# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client

# Pays at most $0.03 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.03"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.get("https://biodiversity.x402tookit.com/species-range?name=Puma+concolor")
    print(res.status_code, res.text)