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Get references for taxonomic names

Source: R/pbdb_queries.R
pbdb_ref_taxa.Rd

Returns information about the source references associated with taxa in the Paleobiology Database. You can use the same parameters that are available with pbdb_taxa, but reference records are returned instead of taxon records. One record is returned per reference, even if it is associated with multiple taxa.

Usage

pbdb_ref_taxa(...)

Arguments

...

Arguments passed to the API. See all available arguments at https://paleobiodb.org/data1.2/taxa/refs

  • name: Returns information about the most fundamental taxonomic name matching this string. The % and _ characters may be used as wildcards.

  • id: Returns information about the taxonomic name corresponding to this identifier. You may not specify both name and id in the same query.

  • show: Show extra variables.

  • rel: Set rel = "synonyms" to select all synonyms of the base taxon or taxa; rel = "children" to select the taxa immediately contained within the base taxon or taxa; rel = "all_children" to select all taxa contained within each matching taxon and within all synonymous taxa; rel = "all_parents" to select all taxa that contain any of the matching taxa.

  • extant: Logical indicating whether to select only extant or non-extant taxa.

Value

A data frame with references from a list of taxa.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
  pbdb_ref_taxa(
    name = "Canidae", vocab = "pbdb", show = c("both", "comments")
  )
} # }