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paleobioDB (version 0.7.0)

pbdb_taxa_auto: pbdb_taxa_auto

Description

Returns a list of names matching the given prefix or partial name.

Usage

pbdb_taxa_auto (...)

Arguments

...

arguments passed to the API. See documentation for accepted parameters in http://paleobiodb.org/data1.1/taxa/auto_doc.html. Eg:

  • name: a partial name or prefix. It must have at least 3 significant characters, and may include both a genus (possibly abbreviated) and a species.

  • limit: set the limit to the number of matches

  • ...

Value

a dataframe with information about the matches (taxon rank and number of occurrences in the database)

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
pbdb_taxa_auto (name="Cani", limit=10) 
# }

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