gbif_search_species

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Search or browse the GBIF backbone taxonomy. Accepts scientific name fragments, rank filters, and higher-taxon constraints. Useful for exploring what species exist under a higher taxon (e.g., "list all families of Coleoptera"), for simple name-fragment searches, or when gbif_match_species returns too narrow a result. kingdom, family, and genus scope the browse to a higher taxon: each is resolved to its backbone key before the search runs, so the narrowest one supplied is what scopes, an alternative name resolves to the taxon it is a synonym of, and a name that matches no backbone taxon at that rank fails rather than returning the whole index. Names are capitalized as GBIF writes them ("Paridae", not "paridae") and are matched exactly, not fuzzily. Paginated — use limit and offset to walk through results.