taxize (version 0.2.2)

gbif_parse: Parse taxon names using the GBIF name parser.

Description

Parse taxon names using the GBIF name parser.

Usage

gbif_parse(scientificname)

Arguments

scientificname

A character vector of scientific names.

Value

• A data.frame containing fields extracted from parsed taxon names. Fields returned are the union of fields extracted from all species names in scientificname.

References

http://dev.gbif.org/wiki/display/POR/Webservice+API, http://tools.gbif.org/nameparser/api.do

See Also

gni_parse

Examples

gbif_parse(scientificname='x Agropogon littoralis')
gbif_parse(c('Arrhenatherum elatius var. elatius',
             'Secale cereale subsp. cereale', 'Secale cereale ssp. cereale',
             'Vanessa atalanta (Linnaeus, 1758)'))