Get taxonomies and other data from the Fish Tree of Life

Retrieves taxonomic and other information from the Fish Tree of Life API.

Usage

fishtree_taxonomy(ranks = NULL)

Arguments

ranks: One or more taxonomic ranks to retrieve.

Value

A list, with components containing data on the specified taxa. If `ranks` is unspecified, a data frame with all valid taxa is returned instead.

References

Rabosky, D. L., Chang, J., Title, P. O., Cowman, P. F., Sallan, L., Friedman, M., Kashner, K., Garilao, C., Near, T. J., Coll, M., Alfaro, M. E. (2018). An inverse latitudinal gradient in speciation rate for marine fishes. Nature, 559(7714), 392–395. doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0273-1

Examples

if (FALSE) {
tax <- fishtree_taxonomy(rank = "Labridae")
n_total <- length(tax$Labridae$species)
n_sampl <- length(tax$Labridae$sampled_species)
paste("There are", n_sampl, "sampled species out of", n_total, "in wrasses.")
}