ITIS Taxa Lookup

Simple dashboard [1] of taxonomic data sourced from ITIS [2] that provides:

• exportable taxonomy data table

• quick search nomenclature for validity

Dashboard: https://regressi.online/itis-lookup/

Usage

Dashboard

Data

Note - ITIS database does not exist in this repository, download ITIS data from source below.

Extract data from ITIS SQLite db

• run src/script1-species.sql to dump data for all species as tsv to itisdata/species.txt

• run src/script1-subspecies.sql to dump data for all species as tsv to itisdata/subspecies.txt

• run src/script2-species.sql to dump data for all taxa hierarchy as csv to itisdata/taxa-species.csv

• run src/script2-subspecies.sql to dump data for all taxa hierarchy as csv to itisdata/taxa-subspecies.csv

Parsing assumes 2 files above-

perl src/itis_parser.pl

Dashboard -

streamlit run itis_dash.py

References

• [1] Built on Streamlit - https://streamlit.io/

• [2] Retrieved from the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) on-line database, www.itis.gov, CC0 https://doi.org/10.5066/F7KH0KBK

Maintainers

The Conservation Technology Lab at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance