EDIT

Here we are facing two problems:

1. The portal does not allow to do a phrase search with a query string like "Garrulus americanus". The web service works correctly in this case: http://api.cybertaxonomy.org/corvidae/portal/taxon/search.json?pageSize=25&pageNumber=0&doTaxa=1&doSynonyms=1&doTaxaByCommonNames=1&query=%22Garrulus+americanus%22
2. When using the phrase search it is not possible to use wildcards at the same time. As noted in a related stack overflow post Lucene 2.9 has ComplexPhraseQueryParser which can handle wildcards in phrases. In the cdmlib we are currently using 5.4.1. An alternative solution could be to use MultiPhraseQuery, but as its summary says, you still need to enumerate the IndexReader.terms yourself to match the wildcard. (also from above names stackoverflow post)

The ComplexPhraseQueryParser is still available in the our current lucene version, so we could give this one a try.

Andreas Kohlbecker wrote:

Here we are facing two problems:

1. The portal does not allow to do a phrase search with a query string like "Garrulus americanus". The web service works correctly in this case: http://api.cybertaxonomy.org/corvidae/portal/taxon/search.json?pageSize=25&pageNumber=0&doTaxa=1&doSynonyms=1&doTaxaByCommonNames=1&query=%22Garrulus+americanus%22

Problem 1) is solved by cdm-dataportal|8bb9f541