We are developing taxize as a package to allow users to
search over many websites for species names (scientific
and common) and download up- and downstream taxonomic
hierarchical information - and many other things. The functions in the package that hit a specific API have
a prefix and suffix separated by an underscore. They
follow the format of service_whatitdoes. For example,
gnr_resolve uses the Global Names Resolver API to resolve
species names. General functions in the package that
don't hit a specific API don't have two words separated
by an underscore, e.g., classification.
You need API keys for Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), the
Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer (uBio),
Tropicos, and Plantminer.
Currently supported APIs are:
ll{ API prefix
Encyclopedia of Life
(EOL) eol_
Integrated Taxonomic Information
Service (ITIS) itis_
Phylomatic phylomatic_
uBio ubio_
Global Names Resolver (from
EOL/GBIF) gnr_
Global Names Index (from
EOL/GBIF) gni_
IUCN Red List iucn_
Tropicos (from Missouri Botanical Garden) tp_
Plantminer plantminer_
Theplantlist.org tpl_
Catalogue of Life col_
Global Invasive
Species Database gisd_
}