arakno (version 1.3.1)

map: Map species ranges.

Description

Maps species range according to the World Spider Catalogue and records according to GBIF and the World Spider Trait database.

Usage

map(
  tax,
  countries = TRUE,
  records = TRUE,
  hires = FALSE,
  zoom = FALSE,
  order = FALSE,
  verbose = TRUE
)

Value

A world map with countries and records highlighted.

Arguments

tax

A taxon name or vector with taxa names.

countries

Maps countries according to WSC.

records

Maps records according to GBIF and WST.

hires

Provides high resolution maps. Beware it might take longer to render.

zoom

If records is TRUE, the map will be zoomed to the region with records.

order

Order taxa names alphabetically or keep as in tax.

verbose

Display information as data are retrieved.

Details

Countries based on the interpretation of the textual descriptions available at the World Spider Catalogue (2025). These might be only approximations to country level and should be taken with caution.

References

Pekar et al. (2021). The World Spider Trait database: a centralized global open repository for curated data on spider traits. Database, 2021: baab064. https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baab064

World Spider Catalog (2025). World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch. doi: 10.24436/2.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
map(c("Pardosa hyperborea"))
map("Amphiledorus", zoom = TRUE, hires = TRUE)
map(c("Pardosa hyperborea", "Iberesia machadoi"), countries  = FALSE, hires = TRUE, zoom = TRUE)
}