Tropicals.cn: Tropical Species Encyclopedia (v1.0.0)

Tropicals.cn Tropical Species Encyclopedia — v1.0.0, published 2026-05-25. A standardized, Chinese-first encyclopedia of 409,994 publishable tropical species, covering tropical plants, ornamental aquatic species, and exotic pets. Data is aligned against POWO, IPNI, Catalogue of Life, GBIF, iNaturalist, EOL, Wikimedia Commons, Reptile Database, FishBase, WoRMS, and NCBI Taxonomy, combined with human curation. Included files species.csv.gz (45.4 MB gzipped) — Flat tabular CSV, 26 columns, one row per species. Suitable for Pandas / DuckDB / Excel. Omits long-form bio_sections. species.jsonld.gz (612.8 MB gzipped) — NDJSON of schema.org/Taxon entities, one per line, includes full bio_sections (7-segment encyclopedia text per species). Suitable for LLM ingestion, RDF / triple stores, graph databases. manifest.json — Per-file sha256, size, row_count for integrity verification. License & scope Text data licensed under CC-BY 4.0. Commercial use, modification, and redistribution permitted with attribution to Tropicals.cn. Included: species names (scientific, English, Chinese, aliases), full taxonomy, IUCN/CITES status, origin countries, care parameters, trade specifications, encyclopedia text. Not included (separate terms apply): marketplace listings, merchant profiles, real-time pricing, user-generated content, high-resolution image files (CDN URLs only in metadata). Citation Tropicals.cn Editors. (2026). Tropicals.cn: Tropical Species Encyclopedia [Dataset], v1.0.0. Zenodo. https://doi.org/<DOI-assigned-on-publish> Live data For real-time queries (not bulk download), see the open API at tropicals.cn/docs/api. The /datasets/ page at tropicals.cn/datasets/ also serves the most recent nightly snapshot in addition to versioned Zenodo releases. Contact [e-mail] — commercial licensing · institutional use · errata reports