gbif_name_usage: Lookup details for specific names in all taxonomies in GBIF.

In taxize: Taxonomic Information from Around the Web

Lookup details for specific names in all taxonomies in GBIF.

Description

This is a taxize version of the same function in the rgbif package so as to not have to import rgbif and thus require GDAL binary installation.

Usage

gbif_name_usage(
  key = NULL,
  name = NULL,
  data = "all",
  language = NULL,
  datasetKey = NULL,
  uuid = NULL,
  sourceId = NULL,
  rank = NULL,
  shortname = NULL,
  start = NULL,
  limit = 20,
  ...
)

Arguments

key	(numeric) A GBIF key for a taxon
name	(character) Filters by a case insensitive, canonical namestring, e.g. 'Puma concolor'
data	(character) Specify an option to select what data is returned. See Description below.
language	(character) Language, default is english
datasetKey	(character) Filters by the dataset's key (a uuid)
uuid	(character) A uuid for a dataset. Should give exact same results as datasetKey.
sourceId	(numeric) Filters by the source identifier. Not used right now.
rank	(character) Taxonomic rank. Filters by taxonomic rank as one of: CLASS, CULTIVAR, CULTIVAR_GROUP, DOMAIN, FAMILY, FORM, GENUS, INFORMAL, INFRAGENERIC_NAME, INFRAORDER, INFRASPECIFIC_NAME, INFRASUBSPECIFIC_NAME, KINGDOM, ORDER, PHYLUM, SECTION, SERIES, SPECIES, STRAIN, SUBCLASS, SUBFAMILY, SUBFORM, SUBGENUS, SUBKINGDOM, SUBORDER, SUBPHYLUM, SUBSECTION, SUBSERIES, SUBSPECIES, SUBTRIBE, SUBVARIETY, SUPERCLASS, SUPERFAMILY, SUPERORDER, SUPERPHYLUM, SUPRAGENERIC_NAME, TRIBE, UNRANKED, VARIETY
shortname	(character) A short name..need more info on this?
start	Record number to start at
limit	Number of records to return
...	Curl options passed on to crul::HttpClient

Value

A list of length two. The first element is metadata. The second is either a data.frame (verbose=FALSE, default) or a list (verbose=TRUE)

References

https://www.gbif.org/developer/summary

taxize documentation built on Sept. 11, 2024, 6:13 p.m.