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Get information about a single taxonomic name

Source: R/pbdb_queries.R
pbdb_taxon.Rd

Returns information about a single taxonomic name, identified either by name or by identifier.

Usage

pbdb_taxon(...)

Arguments

...

Arguments passed to the API. See documentation for accepted parameters at https://paleobiodb.org/data1.2/taxa/single. One of the following parameters must be specified (but not both):

  • 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 the specified identifier. The value can have different forms (see the API documentation in the link above).

Value

A data frame with information from a single taxon.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
  pbdb_taxon(name = "Canis", vocab = "pbdb",
             show = c("attr", "app", "size"))
}