Get full taxonomic information from ITIS

Usage

getTaxonomyFromItis(taxonNames, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

taxonNames: A vector of species names of their Taxonomic Species Number (TSN). Supports different ranks as input. See details.
verbose: Logical. Defaults to TRUE. Should progress notifications be printed in the console?

Value

A data frame

Details

Only taxonomic rank information above the inputted value will be provided, e.g., if you provide a value at the phylum level, only the kingdom-associated levels will be returned. Additionally, there may be different TSNs associated with an input value, one being valid and the other not. Both will be returned. Users should take care to check the 'validity' column for additional filtering criteria.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
taxa <- c("Chinese Mitten Crab", "Liparis", "Oncorhynchus tshawytscha")

getTaxonomyFromItis(taxa)
} # }