faoareas

return a table of species locations as reported in FishBASE.org FAO location data

Usage

faoareas(
  species_list = NULL,
  fields = NULL,
  server = getOption("FISHBASE_API", "fishbase"),
  version = "latest",
  db = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

species_list

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

fields

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

server

Either "fishbase" or "sealifebase".

version

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

db

database connection, now deprecated.

...

additional arguments, currently ignored

Value

a tibble, empty tibble if no results found

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
  faoareas()
}