Returns the full list of accepted names
getAcceptedNames(db)getAcceptedNames returns the list of accepted species names in the
database.
appropriate synonyms database: squamates, birds, mammals, amphibians
The workhorse function for matching synonyms to accepted names is
synonymMatch. The function here is simpler, and is
intended to be complementary to the main matching function.
The squamate database is a local copy of the Reptile Database (http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/), which will be updated periodically. The list of accepted names within this R package are those that are listed as such on the website.
The bird database is the BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v8.0 as downloaded from http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/taxonomy.
The mammal database is Wilson and Reeder's Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, downloaded from http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/.
The amphibian database is a local copy of the AmphibiaWeb taxonomy (https://amphibiaweb.org/taxonomy/index.html), which will be updated periodically.
To see when these datasets were last updated for this R package, run
downloadDates.
Citation:
BirdLife International. 2015. The BirdLife checklist of the birds of the world: Version 8. Downloaded from http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/taxonomy [.xls zipped 1 MB].
Don E. Wilson & DeeAnn M. Reeder (editors). 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp.
Uetz P., Hosek, J. (ed.). 2016. The Reptile Database, /urlhttp://www.reptile-database.org (accessed 30 April 2016).
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synonymMatch