ITIS MCP
The ITIS MCP server provides access to the Integrated Taxonomic Information System, allowing agents to search for authoritative US-government taxonomy data for plants, animals, fungi, and microbes. It supports resolving scientific names to Taxonomic Serial Numbers (TSNs), walking the full taxonomic hierarchy from kingdom to taxon, and retrieving vernacular common names in multiple languages for specific taxa.
Package and access
Local package with source-attributed installation metadata. Koskamo does not execute packages during review.
What you can do with it
- Search ITIS taxonomy by scientific name to resolve to TSNs
- Walk the full taxonomic hierarchy for a given TSN
- Get vernacular common names for a specific taxon
Source and maintenance
- Maintenance checked
Packages and installation
Source-provided package data. Koskamo has not executed or live-probed this package.
@pipeworx/mcp-itis 0.2.0
{
"version": "0.2.0",
"transport": "stdio",
"identifier": "@pipeworx/mcp-itis",
"registryType": "npm",
"environmentVariables": [
{
"name": "PIPEWORX_API_KEY",
"description": "Optional Pipeworx API key. Without it calls are anonymous and capped daily; a free key raises the cap."
}
]
}Tools
Reported by the attributed source; not independently observed by Koskamo.
Connect from your client
Each snippet configures the same source-provided package; replace placeholders before use.
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{
"mcpServers": {
"itis-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pipeworx/mcp-itis@0.2.0"
],
"env": {
"PIPEWORX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PIPEWORX_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}Cline
{
"mcpServers": {
"itis-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pipeworx/mcp-itis@0.2.0"
],
"env": {
"PIPEWORX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PIPEWORX_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}VS Code
{
"servers": {
"itis-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pipeworx/mcp-itis@0.2.0"
],
"env": {
"PIPEWORX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PIPEWORX_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}Claude Desktop
{
"mcpServers": {
"itis-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@pipeworx/mcp-itis@0.2.0"
],
"env": {
"PIPEWORX_API_KEY": "<YOUR_PIPEWORX_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
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