taxo_search: Search The Taxonomicon for a taxon name

In taxodist: Taxonomic Distance and Phylogenetic Lineage Computation

Search The Taxonomicon for a taxon name

Description

Queries The Taxonomicon database and returns a data frame of all available biological entries matching the search string. This is particularly useful for exploring homonyms, historical ranks, or taxonomic synonyms before computing distances.

Usage

taxo_search(taxon, verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

taxon	A character string giving the taxon name to search for.
verbose	Logical. If TRUE, prints status messages. Default FALSE.

Value

A data frame of class "data.frame" with columns:

id

Character. The numeric Taxonomicon ID.

name

Character. The full taxon description, including rank and author.

Returns NULL if no matches are found.

See Also

get_lineage(), taxo_distance()

Examples

taxo_search("Bacteria")
taxo_search("Nereis")
taxo_search("Tyrannosaurus")

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