Extract taxonID(s) corresponding to the taxonomic description

Extract all possible TaxonIDs corresponding to the provided taxonomical description, which can be at the family, the genus or the species levels.

getTaxonomy(
  family = "",
  genus = "",
  species = "",
  taxaType = 1,
  depth.out = 8,
  dbname = "gbif4crest_02",
  crest = NA
)

Arguments

family: The name of the family.
genus: The name of the genus.
species: The name of the species.
taxaType: A numerical index (between 1 and 5) to define the type of palaeoproxy used: 1 for plants, 2 for beetles, 3 for chironomids, 4 for foraminifers, 5 for diatoms and 6 for rodents.
depth.out: The taxonomic resolution of the output table. 1 for Kingdom, 2 for phylum, 3 for class_name, 4 for order_name, 5 for family, 6 for genus, 7 for species and 8 to also include the taxonID.
dbname: The name of the data source database.
crest: A crestObj to be used to refine the selection to a specific study area. Set to NA by default (global search).

Value

A vector of unique taxonIDs.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
  getTaxonomy("Zamiaceae    ")
  getTaxonomy(genus="Ceratozamia", depth.out=6)
  ## \code{taxaType = 2} searches for beetles and not plants, so the next line returns nothing.
  getTaxonomy("Zamiaceae", "Ceratozamia", taxaType = 2)
}