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bold_children

Barcode of Life taxonomic children


Description

BEWARE: this function scrapes data from the BOLD website, so may be unstable. That is, one day it may work, and the next it may fail. Open an issue if you encounter an error: https://github.com/ropensci/taxize/issues

Usage

bold_children(id, ...)

Arguments

id

(integer) A BOLD taxonomic identifier. length=1. required

...

named curl options passed on to crul::verb-GET debugging

Value

list of data.frame's

Examples

## Not run: 
# Osmia (genus): 253 children
bold_children(id = 4940)
# Momotus (genus): 3 children
bold_children(id = 88899)
# Momotus aequatorialis (species): no children
bold_children(id = 115130)
# Osmia sp1 (species): no children
bold_children(id = 293378)
# Arthropoda (phylum): 27 children
bold_children(id = 82)
# Psocodea (order): 51 children
bold_children(id = 737139)
# Megachilinae (subfamily): 2 groups (tribes: 3, genera: 60)
bold_children(id = 4962)
# Stelis (species): 78 taxa
bold_children(id = 4952)

## End(Not run)

taxize

Taxonomic Information from Around the Web

v0.9.100
MIT + file LICENSE
Authors
Scott Chamberlain [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1444-9135>), Eduard Szoecs [aut], Zachary Foster [aut, cre], Zebulun Arendsee [aut], Carl Boettiger [ctb], Karthik Ram [ctb], Ignasi Bartomeus [ctb], John Baumgartner [ctb], James O'Donnell [ctb], Jari Oksanen [ctb], Bastian Greshake Tzovaras [ctb], Philippe Marchand [ctb], Vinh Tran [ctb], Maëlle Salmon [ctb], Gaopeng Li [ctb], Matthias Grenié [ctb], rOpenSci [fnd] (https://ropensci.org/)
Initial release

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