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worrms

World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) Client

Client for World Register of Marine Species (<http://www.marinespecies.org/>). Includes functions for each of the API methods, including searching for names by name, date and common names, searching using external identifiers, fetching synonyms, as well as fetching taxonomic children and taxonomic classification.

Functions (23)

wm_attr_aphia

Get AphiaIDs by attribute definition ID

wm_attr_category

Get attributes grouped by a CategoryID

wm_attr_data

Get attribute data by AphiaID

wm_attr_def

Get attribute definition by ID

wm_children

Get children for an AphiaID

wm_classification

Get classification for an AphiaID

wm_common_id

Get vernacular names from an AphiaID

wm_distribution

Get distribution data by AphiaID

wm_external

Get an external ID via an AphiaID

Get taxonomic name for an AphiaID

Get AphiaID from a taxonomic name

Get taxonomic ranks by their identifier

Get complete AphiaRecord for an AphiaID

wm_record_by_external

Get record by external ID

wm_records_common

Get records by vernacular name, optional fuzzy matching

wm_records_date

Get records by date

wm_records_name

Get records by single name, optional fuzzy matching

wm_records_names

Get records for onen or more taxonomic name(s)

wm_records_rank

Get AphiaRecords for a given taxonRankID

wm_records_taxamatch

Get records for onen or more taxonomic name(s) using the TAXAMATCH fuzzy matching algorithm

Get sources for an AphiaID

wm_synonyms

Get synonyms for an AphiaID

worrms-package

worrms

worrms

World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) Client

v0.4.2

MIT + file LICENSE

Authors

Scott Chamberlain [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1444-9135>)

Initial release

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