ranks_ref

Composed of two columns:<ul>
<li>rankid - the ordered identifier value. lower values mean higher rank</li>
<li>ranks - all the rank names that belong to the same level, with
different variants that mean essentially the same thing</li>
</ul>

data

Provides taxonomic classes for
groupings of taxonomic names without data, and those
with data. Methods provided are "taxonomically aware", in
that they know about ordering of ranks, and methods that
filter based on taxonomy also filter associated data.

Scott Chamberlain

taxa

ranks_ref: Lookup-table for IDs of taxonomic ranks

Description

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