paleobioDB (version 1.0.0)

pbdb_taxa: Get information about multiple taxonomic names

Description

Returns information about multiple taxonomic names. This function can be used to query for all of the children or parents of a given taxon, among other operations.

Usage

pbdb_taxa(...)

Value

A data frame with information from a list of taxa.

Arguments

...

Arguments passed to the API. See all available arguments at https://paleobiodb.org/data1.2/taxa/list.

• name: Returns information about the most fundamental taxonomic name matching this string. The % and _ characters may be used as wildcards.

• id: Return information about the taxonomic name corresponding to this identifier. You may not specify both name and id in the same query.

• show: Show extra variables. Some examples include: "attr" the attribution of this taxon (author and year); "app" the age of first and last appearance of this taxon from the occurrences recorded in this database; "size" the number of subtaxa appearing in this database.

• rel: Set rel = "synonyms" to select all synonyms of the base taxon or taxa; rel = "children" to select the taxa immediately contained within the base taxon or taxa; rel = "common" to select the most specific taxon that contains all of the base taxa.

• extant: Logical indicating whether to select only extant or non-extant taxa.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
  pbdb_taxa(name = "Canidae", rel = "all_parents", vocab = "pbdb",
            show = c("attr", "app", "size", "class"))
  pbdb_taxa(id = c(10, 11), vocab = "pbdb",
            show = c("attr", "app", "size", "class"))
  pbdb_taxa(
    id = c(10, 11), vocab = "pbdb",
    show = c("attr", "app", "size", "class"), rel = "common"
  )
}