Find a species' designations
find_designationsIs a species protected or at risk, and under which act, list and edition? What the species registers we hold say about one species: its status under each list that names it (the US Endangered Species Act lists, Canada's Species at Risk Act and COSEWIC, provincial acts, the IUCN Red List, CITES, CMS, the EU Habitats and Birds Directives' annexes, UK schedules). Each row gives the status as printed, an outcome (listed, listed_qualified = only under a population or subspecies you must confirm, watch_listed, assessed_not_listed, ...) and a cite block (instrument, edition, the line the register prints, source URL and sha256). Registers searched that do not name the species are in silent, each with what its silence means. When none names it the answer is a refused block naming every register searched and its edition: say that these registers do not name it, never that the species is unprotected.
Tool call template
Replace each placeholder with a value matching the input schema. Only required parameters are included; add optional parameters as needed.
{
"id": 1,
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"arguments": {
"species": "<species>"
},
"name": "find_designations"
}
}Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| place | No | ISO 3166 code of where the species is: a country (US, CA, GB, FR) or a state or province (US-CA, CA-ON, GB-SCT). Only the registers that reach it are searched, with the global ones (IUCN, CITES, and CMS where the country is a Party). Omit to search every register. | |
| species | Yes | A scientific name (Myotis lucifugus, Rana draytonii; authorship allowed) or a common name exactly as a register prints it (little brown myotis, caribou). |