Taxonomy¶

neon_search_taxonomy pages through NEON's taxonomy lists — the names NEON field staff use for birds, beetles, plants, small mammals, ticks and other groups¹.

• Either a taxon_type_code (ALGAE, BEETLE, BIRD, FISH, HERPETOLOGY, MACROINVERTEBRATE, MOSQUITO, MOSQUITO_PATHOGENS, PLANT, SMALL_MAMMAL, TICK) or rank filters (kingdom, phylum, division, class, order, family, genus, scientific_name) — NEON rejects both together, and neon-mcp refuses the combination before calling.
• scientific_name must match exactly upstream; if an exact "Genus species" finds nothing, neon-mcp retries by genus and keeps names starting with your text (fuzzyFallbackUsed: true).
• Rows keep NEON's Darwin Core keys verbatim (dwc:scientificName, dwc:vernacularName, dwc:family, …). verbose=true adds every rank and extra field, drops null ones, and caps limit at 100.
• Paging follows NEON's own next link: continue with offset=page.nextOffset.

{"taxon_type_code": "BIRD", "limit": 25}