Get Taxonomy Information Including Genus, Family and Order — get_taxonomy

This function returns the genus, family, order for each species in the input vector. It queries multiple sources (e.g., GBIF, ITIS, FishBase, COL, NCBI) to retrieve the taxonomic information. If all_categories is set to TRUE, it will return all available taxonomic ranks.

Usage

get_taxonomy_info(
  species,
  all_categories = FALSE,
  sources = c("gbif", "itis", "ncbi")
)

Arguments

species: Vector of species names (scientific names) as input.
all_categories: Logical, if TRUE, retrieves all taxonomic categories available. Default is FALSE.
sources: Character vector, the taxonomy sources to query. Options include "gbif", "itis", "ncbi", "col", "eol", "tropicos", "wikidata", "ott", "nbnc", "fishbase". Default is c("gbif", "itis", "ncbi").

Value

A data frame with taxonomic categories including species, year, author, genus, family, and order.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Example with a single species using multiple sources
get_taxonomy_info(c("Panthera leo"), sources = c("gbif", "itis"))

# Example with fish species using FishBase
get_taxonomy_info(c("Salmo salar", "Oncorhynchus mykiss"), sources = "fishbase")

# Example with multiple species and all categories
get_taxonomy_info(c("Panthera leo", "Homo sapiens"), all_categories = TRUE)
} # }