This R packages contains an expert curated Copepod Fish database. This database was taxonomically curated by Francisco Neptalí Morales-Serna. The data cleaning, standarization and wrapping as an R packages was done by Ángel Luis Robles-Fernandez

Installation

You can install the development version of cofid from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("alrobles/cofid")
# load the data to your environment
data(cofid, "cofid")

Dataset

The dataset contains $7, 725$ copepod - fish interaction records. The fields in the data set are:

• source_taxon_external_id: the id number provided by World Register of Marine Species
• source_taxon_name: The scientific name of the copepod species
• source_taxon_path: Taxonomical hierarchy of the copepod. Only contains 7 levels
• source_specimen_life_stage: The life stage of the record
• interaction_type: The type of interaction between copepod and fish The records are mainly ectoparasitic (7654). There are 74 endoparasitic and 7 parasitic
• target_taxon_external_id: The host fish id number provided by World Register of Marine Species
• target_taxon_name: Host fish species scientific name
• target_taxon_path: Taxonomical hierarchy of the host fish. Only contains 7 levels
• target_specimen_life_stage: The life stage of the host fish
• study_citation: Original study where the record cand be found

Online access

You can try online the dataset.