italic_taxonomy: Get taxonomic classification of lichen taxa

In ritalic: Interface to the ITALIC Database of Lichen Biodiversity

Get taxonomic classification of lichen taxa

Description

Retrieves the complete taxonomic classification of lichen taxa from the ITALIC database. Only accepts names that exist in the database of ITALIC.

Usage

italic_taxonomy(sp_names)

Arguments

sp_names

Character vector of accepted names

Value

A data frame with:

scientific_name

The scientific name provided as input

phylum

Phylum

class

Class

order

Order

family

Family

genus

Genus

Note

Before using this function with a list of names, first obtain their accepted names using italic_match(). Example workflow:

      names_matched <- italic_match(your_names)
      taxonomy <- italic_taxonomy(names_matched$accepted_name)
      

Examples

## Not run: 
italic_taxonomy("Cetraria islandica (L.) Ach. subsp. islandica")

## End(Not run)

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