Taxon names are standardized according to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) database. The conversion is case-insensitive. For this conversion, the TWN-list (Taxa Water management the Netherlands) is used, extended with species of the Southern North Sea. See references below for download locations.
as_accepted(taxon, taxa = NULL)
character vector with WoRMS/TWN compliant species names
character
vector, containing taxon names
an optional table usually created with read_taxa
.