melt_scientificname: Melt scientific name into fields

In taxotools: Taxonomic List Processing

Melt scientific name into fields

Description

Parse scientific names into Genus, Species, Subspecies, Author etc.

Usage

melt_scientificname(
  dat,
  sciname = "",
  genus = "genus",
  subgenus = "subgenus",
  species = "species",
  subspecies = "subspecies",
  author = "author",
  verbose = FALSE
)

Arguments

dat	data frame containing scientific names
sciname	column name for scientific names, Default: ”
genus	column name for genus, Default: 'genus'
subgenus	column name for subgenus, Default: 'subgenus'
species	column name for species, Default: 'species'
subspecies	column name for subspecies, Default: 'subspecies'
author	column name for author, Default: 'author'
verbose	verbose output, Default: FALSE

Details

Helpful function to break down Scientific names into Genus, Subgenus, species, Subspecies, Author so that the names can be constructed into canonical names for matching

Value

data frame with additional columns for taxonomic fields

See Also

Other Name functions: build_gen_syn(), cast_canonical(), cast_scientificname(), check_scientific(), expand_name(), get_accepted_names(), guess_taxo_rank(), list_higher_taxo(), melt_canonical(), resolve_names(), taxo_fuzzy_match()

Examples

mylist <- data.frame("id"= c(11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19),
                     "scname" = c("Hypochlorosis ancharia (Hewitson, 1869)",
                                  "Hypochlorosis ancharia ssp. ancharia (Hewitson, 1869)",
                                  "Hypochlorosis ancharia ssp. humboldti Druce, 1894",
                                  "Myrina lorquinii C. & R. Felder, 1865",
                                  "Hypochlorosis ancharia tenebrosa Rothschild, 1915",
                                  "Hypochlorosis ancharia  tenebrosa Rothschild, 1915",
                                  "Hypochlorosis (Pseudonotis) metilia Fruhstorfer, 1908",
                                  "Seuku emlongi (Domning et al., 1986)",
                                  "Sithon lorquinii"),
                     stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

melt_scientificname(mylist, sciname="scname", genus="genus",
                    subgenus="subgenus", species="species",subspecies="subspecies",
                    author="author")

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