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worms (version 0.2.2)

Retriving Aphia Information from World Register of Marine Species

Description

Retrieves taxonomic information from using WoRMS' RESTful Webservice. Utility functions aim at taxonomic consistency.

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install.packages('worms')

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Version

0.2.2

License

GNU Affero General Public License

Maintainer

Jan Holstein

Last Published

April 25th, 2018

Functions in worms (0.2.2)

wormsconsolidate

Recursivly retrieves respective "accepted" AphiaRecords for all synonyms if not already there
worms

worms: Use WoRMS RESTful webservice to scrape Aphia information from World Register of Marine Species
wormsbymatchnames

GET AphiaRecordsByMatchNames
wormsbynames

GET AphiaRecordsByNames
wormsaccepted

Constructs "accepted_id" column which contains the "AphiaID" of the respective "accepted" taxon
wormsbyid

GET AphiaRecordByAphiaID
northseamacrozoobenthos

Over 1600 taxonomic, vernacular and trivial names of benthic critters from the North Sea