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.
to_worms(taxon, worms = NULL)is_worms(.data = NULL, taxon)
is_worms_(.data, taxon)
is_accepted(.data = NULL, taxon)
is_accepted_(.data, taxon)
character vector with WoRMS compliant species names
TRUE for WoRMS compliant species names,
FALSE otherwise.
TRUE for WoRMS/TWN compliant species names,
FALSE otherwise.
character vector, containing taxon names
an optional table usually created with read_twn.
data in a data.frame, tibble,
data.table, database etc.
is_worms(): check if a taxon complies with WoRMS
is_worms_(): as is_worms but suitable for calling from a
function (see package lazyeval).
is_accepted(): check if a taxon complies with WoRMS/TWN
is_accepted_(): as is_accepted but suitable for calling from a
function (see package lazyeval).