taxaCategories: Get species for a category of taxa in NPSpecies

Description Usage Arguments Details Examples

View source: R/CreateSpeciesDictionary.R

Description

taxaCategories returns all taxa within a taxonomic category in NPSpecies

Usage

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Arguments

category

is one of fifteen taxonomic categories within the NPSpecies/Taxonomy application:

"Bird"

Birds

"Fish"

Fishes

"Insect"

Insects

"Other Non-vertebrates"

Other non-vertebrate species

"Non-vascular Plant"

Non-vascular plants

"Fungi"

Fungi

"Protozoa"

Protozoa

"Vascular Plant"

Vascular plants

"Slug/Snail"

Slugs and snails

"Amphibian"

Amphibians

"Reptile"

Reptiles

"Mammal"

Mammals

"Crab/Lobster/Shrimp"

Crabs, lobsters, and shrimp

"Spider/Scorpion"

Spiders and scorpions

"Archaea"

Prokaryotic microorganisms

Details

This function is used to extract latin species names from the NPSpecies master taxonomy table for any given taxonomic group. Used by the dicSpecies function when building the dictionary for text comparison.

Examples

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