letsRept_SquamBase

This dataset is a version of SquamBase (Meiri, 2024) with two additional columns.

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Provides tools to retrieve and summarize taxonomic information and synonymy data for reptile species using data scraped from The Reptile Database website (<https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/>). Outputs include clean and structured data frames useful for ecological, evolutionary, and conservation research.

João Paulo dos Santos Vieira-Alencar

letsRept

An Interface to the Reptile Database

letsRept_SquamBase function

A dataframe with 11,744 rows and 86 variables. The first three columns are:<dl>
<dt>species</dt>
<dd>Species name as in the original SquamBase database</dd><dt>RDB</dt>
<dd>Current valid name according to the May 2025 version of the Reptile Database</dd><dt>nomenclature.status</dt>
<dd>Status from reptSync and reptSplitCheck. Additional status are: "extinct" and "manual_fix"</dd>
</dl>

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Example dataset: letsRept_SquamBase — letsRept_SquamBase

A dataframe with 11,744 rows and 86 variables. The first three columns are:<dl>
<dt>species</dt>
<dd>Species name as in the original SquamBase database</dd>

<dt>RDB</dt>
<dd>Current valid name according to the May 2025 version of the Reptile Database</dd>

<dt>nomenclature.status</dt>
<dd>Status from reptSync and reptSplitCheck. Additional status are: "extinct" and "manual_fix"</dd>


</dl>

letsRept_SquamBase: Example dataset: letsRept_SquamBase

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