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BOLD Systems data API boundary

Official-source access, authentication, request-shaping, freshness, legal, and interpretation boundaries for BOLD Systems data API.

version 1.0.0freshness currentobserved 2026-08-28T20:35:47.627Z

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Evidence-backed facts

  1. BOLD Systems documents barcode sequence, specimen, taxonomy, institution, geography, and dataset records. informative
  2. Public reads do not grant specimen, sequence, dataset, taxonomic, collection, submission, or BOLD editorial authority. informative
  3. Clients must bind endpoint, taxon, process or specimen identifier, institution, geography, marker, format, and result size. informative
  4. Barcode and specimen records can be provisional, misidentified, incomplete, embargoed, or revised and do not alone prove species identity, provenance, or legal collection. informative