At times the genus is specified with first character and '.' rather then
repeating genus names every time. These are either synonyms or species of the
same genus listed one bellow another. To convert these names to canonical
names, we need to expand the genus name (typically) using previous entry in
the list.
Usage
expand_name(fullname, shortname)
Value
scientific name with Genus expanded using reference name provided as parameter
Arguments
fullname
full scientific name
shortname
scientific name with short form genus name to expand the Genus
See Also
Other Name functions:
build_gen_syn(),
cast_canonical(),
cast_scientificname(),
check_scientific(),
get_accepted_names(),
guess_taxo_rank(),
list_higher_taxo(),
melt_canonical(),
melt_scientificname(),
resolve_names(),
taxo_fuzzy_match()