to_worms: Convert Taxon Names to Comply with WoRMS

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Convert Taxon Names to Comply with WoRMS

Description

Taxon names are standardized according to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) database. The conversion is case-insensitive. For this conversion, the TWN-list (Taxa Water management the Netherlands) is used, extended with species of the Southern North Sea. See references below for download locations.

Usage

to_worms(taxon, worms = NULL)

is_worms(.data = NULL, taxon)

is_worms_(.data, taxon)

is_accepted(.data = NULL, taxon)

is_accepted_(.data, taxon)

Arguments

taxon	character vector, containing taxon names
worms	an optional table usually created with read_twn.
.data	data in a data.frame, tibble, data.table, database etc.

Value

character vector with WoRMS compliant species names

TRUE for WoRMS compliant species names, FALSE otherwise.

TRUE for WoRMS/TWN compliant species names, FALSE otherwise.

Functions

• is_worms(): check if a taxon complies with WoRMS

• is_worms_(): as is_worms but suitable for calling from a function (see package lazyeval).

• is_accepted(): check if a taxon complies with WoRMS/TWN

• is_accepted_(): as is_accepted but suitable for calling from a function (see package lazyeval).

References

https://www.marinespecies.org/

https://taxainfo.nl/

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