species: species

In rfishbase: R Interface to 'FishBase'

species

Description

Provide wrapper to work with species lists.

Usage

species(
  species_list = NULL,
  fields = NULL,
  server = c("fishbase", "sealifebase"),
  version = "latest",
  db = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

species_list	A vector of scientific names (each element as "genus species"). If empty, a table for all fish will be returned.
fields	subset to these columns. (recommend to omit this and handle manually)
server	Either "fishbase" or "sealifebase".
version	a version string for the database. See available_releases() for details.
db	database connection, now deprecated.
...	additional arguments, currently ignored

Details

The Species table is the heart of FishBase. This function provides a convenient way to query, tidy, and assemble data from that table given an entire list of species. For details, see: http://www.fishbase.org/manual/english/fishbasethe_species_table.htm

Species scientific names are defined according to fishbase taxonomy and nomenclature.

Value

a data.frame with rows for species and columns for the fields returned by the query (FishBase 'species' table)

Examples

## Not run: 

species(c("Labroides bicolor", "Bolbometopon muricatum")) 


## End(Not run)

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