rgbif (version 0.4.0)

parsenames: Parse taxon names using the GBIF name parser.

Description

Parse taxon names using the GBIF name parser.

Usage

parsenames(scientificname)

Arguments

scientificname

A character vector of scientific names.

Value

• A data.frame containing fields extracted from parsed taxon names. Fields returned are the union of fields extracted from all species names in scientificname.

References

http://www.gbif.org/developer/summary

Examples

parsenames(scientificname='x Agropogon littoralis')
parsenames(c('Arrhenatherum elatius var. elatius',
             'Secale cereale subsp. cereale', 'Secale cereale ssp. cereale',
             'Vanessa atalanta (Linnaeus, 1758)'))