Phylotastic Web Services are grouped into the following categories:

Scientific Name Extraction services : services to extract scientific names on web pages, PDFs, Microsoft Office documents, images.

Taxonomic Name Resolution services : services for resolving taxonomic names to different data source identifiers.

Phylogenetic Tree Retrieval services : services to retrieve Phylogenetic trees.

Taxon to Species services : services to fetch a set of species belonging to a particular Taxon.

Image/Infromation URL Retrieval services : services for obtaining Image/Infromation URLs related to a set of species.

Common Name to Sceintific Name services : services to find scientific names from common names.

Species List services : services to publish/remove/update/access lists of species owned by a phylotastic web application/services user.

Tree scaling services : services for getting chronograms (trees with branch lengths proportional to time).

Miscellaneous services : services for different use cases.

Species data services : services for retrieving traits of species.