Return a list of scientific names corresponding to given the common name(s).
Usage
common_to_sci(
x,
Language = "English",
server = c("fishbase", "sealifebase"),
version = "latest",
db = NULL
)
Value
a character vector of scientific names
Arguments
x
a common name or list of common names
Language
a string specifying the language for the common name, e.g. "English"
server
Either "fishbase" or "sealifebase".
version
a version string for the database. See available_releases() for details.
db
database connection, now deprecated.
Details
If more than one scientific name matches the common name (e.g. "trout"), the function
will simply return a list of all matching scientific names. If given more than one common name,
the resulting strings of matching scientific names are simply concatenated.