common names

Return a table of common names

Usage

common_names(
  species_list = NULL,
  server = c("fishbase", "sealifebase"),
  version = "latest",
  db = NULL,
  Language = "English",
  fields = NULL
)

Arguments

species_list

A vector of scientific names (each element as "genus species"). If empty, a table for all fish will be returned.

server

Either "fishbase" or "sealifebase".

version

a version string for the database. See available_releases() for details.

db

database connection, now deprecated.

Language

a string specifying the language for the common name, e.g. "English"

fields

subset to these columns. (recommend to omit this and handle manually)

Value

a data.frame of common names by species queried. If multiple species are queried, The resulting data.frames are concatenated.

Details

Note that there are many common names for a given sci name

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
common_names("Bolbometopon muricatum")
}