In ropensci/taxize: Taxonomic Information from Around the Web

Data sources currently implemented in taxize

Souce	Function prefix	API Docs	API key
Encylopedia of Life	eol	link	none
Integrated Taxonomic Information Service	itis	link	none
Global Names Resolver	gnr	link	none
Global Names Index	gni	link	none
IUCN Red List	iucn	link	link
Tropicos	tp	link	link
Theplantlist dot org	tpl	**	none
National Center for Biotechnology Information	ncbi	none	none
CANADENSYS Vascan name search API	vascan	link	none
International Plant Names Index (IPNI)	ipni	none	none
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD)	bold	link	none
National Biodiversity Network (UK)	nbn	link	none
Index Fungorum	fg	none	none
EU BON	eubon	link	none
Index of Names (ION)	ion	link	none
Open Tree of Life (TOL)	tol	link	none
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)	worms	link	none
NatureServe	natserv	link	link
Wikipedia	wiki	link	none
Kew's Plants of the World	pow	none	none

**: There are none! We suggest using TPL and TPLck functions in the taxonstand package. We provide two functions to get bulk data: tpl_families and tpl_get.

***: There are none! The function scrapes the web directly.

May be in taxize in the future: See the datasources label (https://github.com/ropensci/taxize/labels/datasources) in the issue tracker

ropensci/taxize documentation built on Jan. 25, 2024, 6:49 p.m.