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In janhoo/worms: Retriving Aphia Information from World Register of Marine Species

Description

The worms package provides two kinds of functions:

a) retrieving taxonomic information using WoRMS' RESTful Webservice by using taxon name search, fuzzy matching, or Aphia ID search implementing methods documented at http://www.marinespecies.org/rest/

b) functions that parse the data for synonyms in order to complete the dataset so that for every taxon in the dataset the respective taxon with status 'accepted' exists as well. Constructed references to the respective taxon with status 'accepted' help aggregating biodiversity data without the use of synonyms, alternative representations, and common misspellings leading to errors.

Check out https://github.com/janhoo/worms/ for the developement version.

References

This package is not connected or endorsed by WoRMS. According to WoRMS, information from World Register of Marine Species is free to use under the condition that they are cited (CC-BY). While no license model is specified for the webservice employed, we strongly recommended to give reference to WoRMS, e.g., www.marinespecies.org, 18/06/17 (CC-BY). The citation for the full database is:

WoRMS Editorial Board (2017). World Register of Marine Species. Available from http://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ. Accessed <today>. doi:10.14284/170

For single taxa, references are given in the citation column Please give proper reference to them.

janhoo/worms documentation built on May 20, 2019, 2:45 p.m.