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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)
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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