fishmorph: Morphological traits of freshwater fishes

fishmorphR Documentation

Morphological traits of freshwater fishes

Description

Morphological traits of freshwater fishes

Usage

data(fishmorph)

Format

A data.frame with 8342 observations and 19 variables.

Details

The database includes ten morphological traits measured on 10230 freshwater fish species, covering 59.71

Measures

  • Variable name, SpecCode, Superorder, Order, Family, Genus species,

  • MBI (Maximum body length), BEl (Body elongation), VEp (Vertical eye position), REs (Relative eye size), OGp (Oral gape position), RMl (Relative maxillary length), BLs (Body lateral shape), PFv (Pectoral fin vertical position), PFs (Pectoral fin size), CPt (Caudal peduncle throttling), Type of illustration, Reference

  • scientificNameStd

Source

Cite this dataset as:

  • Brosse, S., Charpin, N., Su, G., Toussaint, A., Herrera, G., Tedesco, P.A., Villeger, S. (2021) FISHMORPH: a global database on morphological traits of freshwater fishes. Global Ecology and Biogeography"", https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13395.


RS-eco/traitdata documentation built on Oct. 29, 2022, 7:52 p.m.