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rfishbase (version 5.0.0)

common_to_sci: common_to_sci

Description

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.

See Also

synonyms

Examples

Run this code
if (FALSE) { # interactive()
# \donttest{
common_to_sci(c("Bicolor cleaner wrasse", "humphead parrotfish"), Language="English")
common_to_sci(c("Coho Salmon", "trout"))
# }
}

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