countries: Get taxon countries from WSC.

In arakno: ARAchnid KNowledge Online

Get taxon countries from WSC.

Description

Get countries of taxa from the World Spider Catalogue textual descriptions.

Usage

countries(tax)

Arguments

tax	A taxon name or vector with taxa names.

Details

Countries based on the interpretation of the textual descriptions available at the World Spider Catalogue (2022). These might be only approximations to country level and should be taken with caution.

Value

A vector with country ISO codes. Family and genera names will be converted to species.

References

World Spider Catalog (2022). World Spider Catalog. Version 23.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch. doi: 10.24436/2.

Examples

## Not run: 
countries("Iberesia machadoi")
countries(c("Iberesia machadoi", "Nemesia"))

## End(Not run)

arakno documentation built on Aug. 24, 2022, 1:05 a.m.