Objects of this class are composed of three slots, every one corresponding to
a data frame:
- taxonNames
Table of taxon usage names (accepted names and synonyms).
- taxonRelations
Relations between concepts, accepted names, basionyms,
parents and hierarchical level.
- taxonTraits
Table of taxon traits.
- taxonViews
References used to determine the respective concept
circumscription.
An additional property of taxlist
objects are the taxonomic ranks, which
can be set and retrieved using the function
levels
.