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gbif_name_usage

Lookup details for specific names in all taxonomies in GBIF.

Description

This is a taxize version of the same function in the rgbif package so as to not have to import rgbif and thus require GDAL binary installation.

Usage

gbif_name_usage(
  key = NULL,
  name = NULL,
  data = "all",
  language = NULL,
  datasetKey = NULL,
  uuid = NULL,
  sourceId = NULL,
  rank = NULL,
  shortname = NULL,
  start = NULL,
  limit = 20,
  ...
)

Arguments

`key`	(numeric) A GBIF key for a taxon
`name`	(character) Filters by a case insensitive, canonical namestring, e.g. 'Puma concolor'
`data`	(character) Specify an option to select what data is returned. See Description below.
`language`	(character) Language, default is english
`datasetKey`	(character) Filters by the dataset's key (a uuid)
`uuid`	(character) A uuid for a dataset. Should give exact same results as datasetKey.
`sourceId`	(numeric) Filters by the source identifier. Not used right now.
`rank`	(character) Taxonomic rank. Filters by taxonomic rank as one of: CLASS, CULTIVAR, CULTIVAR_GROUP, DOMAIN, FAMILY, FORM, GENUS, INFORMAL, INFRAGENERIC_NAME, INFRAORDER, INFRASPECIFIC_NAME, INFRASUBSPECIFIC_NAME, KINGDOM, ORDER, PHYLUM, SECTION, SERIES, SPECIES, STRAIN, SUBCLASS, SUBFAMILY, SUBFORM, SUBGENUS, SUBKINGDOM, SUBORDER, SUBPHYLUM, SUBSECTION, SUBSERIES, SUBSPECIES, SUBTRIBE, SUBVARIETY, SUPERCLASS, SUPERFAMILY, SUPERORDER, SUPERPHYLUM, SUPRAGENERIC_NAME, TRIBE, UNRANKED, VARIETY
`shortname`	(character) A short name..need more info on this?
`start`	Record number to start at
`limit`	Number of records to return
`...`	Curl options passed on to crul::HttpClient

Value

A list of length two. The first element is metadata. The second is either a data.frame (verbose=FALSE, default) or a list (verbose=TRUE)

References

https://www.gbif.org/developer/summary

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v0.9.100

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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