takes character vector with taxon names and retrives AphiaRecords from WoRMS
wormsbymatchnames(taxon_names, verbose = TRUE, ids = FALSE,
chunksize = 50, marine_only = "true", sleep_btw_chunks_in_sec = 0.1)
character vector with names of taxa to look up.
be verbose
add column "id" and "name" with running id and search names
only 50 taxa can be looked up per request, so request are split up into chunks (should be 50 or less)
Limit to marine taxa. Default=true
pause between requests
a data frame.
This function will take a character vector with taxon names, retrive AphiaRecords (CC-BY) from www.marinespecies.org using the GET /AphiaRecordsByName/ScientificName Method described at http://www.marinespecies.org/rest/. Results will be output to a data.frame with each row being a record. For each name given, only the one AphiaRecord will be retrived. AphiaRecord with "accepted" status are preferred. If not present last entry will be taken which seems to result in best results.