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Returns a list of names matching the given prefix or partial name.
pbdb_taxa_auto (...)
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
...
a dataframe with information about the matches (taxon rank and number of occurrences in the database)
# NOT RUN { pbdb_taxa_auto (name="Cani", limit=10) # }
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