gbif_name_usage: Lookup details for specific names in all taxonomies in GBIF.

Description

This is a taxize version of the same function in the rgbif package so as to not have to import rgbif and thus require GDAL binary installation.

Usage

gbif_name_usage(
  key = NULL,
  name = NULL,
  data = "all",
  language = NULL,
  datasetKey = NULL,
  uuid = NULL,
  sourceId = NULL,
  rank = NULL,
  shortname = NULL,
  start = NULL,
  limit = 20,
  ...
)

Value

A list of length two. The first element is metadata. The second is either a data.frame (verbose=FALSE, default) or a list (verbose=TRUE)

Arguments

key: (numeric) A GBIF key for a taxon
name: (character) Filters by a case insensitive, canonical namestring, e.g. 'Puma concolor'
data: (character) Specify an option to select what data is returned. See Description below.
language: (character) Language, default is english
datasetKey: (character) Filters by the dataset's key (a uuid)
uuid: (character) A uuid for a dataset. Should give exact same results as datasetKey.
sourceId: (numeric) Filters by the source identifier. Not used right now.
rank: (character) Taxonomic rank. Filters by taxonomic rank as one of: CLASS, CULTIVAR, CULTIVAR_GROUP, DOMAIN, FAMILY, FORM, GENUS, INFORMAL, INFRAGENERIC_NAME, INFRAORDER, INFRASPECIFIC_NAME, INFRASUBSPECIFIC_NAME, KINGDOM, ORDER, PHYLUM, SECTION, SERIES, SPECIES, STRAIN, SUBCLASS, SUBFAMILY, SUBFORM, SUBGENUS, SUBKINGDOM, SUBORDER, SUBPHYLUM, SUBSECTION, SUBSERIES, SUBSPECIES, SUBTRIBE, SUBVARIETY, SUPERCLASS, SUPERFAMILY, SUPERORDER, SUPERPHYLUM, SUPRAGENERIC_NAME, TRIBE, UNRANKED, VARIETY
shortname: (character) A short name..need more info on this?
start: Record number to start at
limit: Number of records to return
...: Curl options passed on to crul::HttpClient

References

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