Fetch a taxon profile given a scientific name or LSID (GUID)

Source: R/species_info.R

Fetch a taxon profile given a scientific name or LSID (GUID)

species_info(scientificname, guid, verbose = sbdi_config()$verbose)

Arguments

scientificname

string: scientific name of the taxon of interest (species, genus, family etc)
guid

string: The Life Science Identifier of the taxon of interest
verbose

logical: show additional progress information? [default is set by sbdi_config()]

Value

A species profile in the form of a named list, each element of which is generally a data frame. An empty list is returned if no match is found for the supplied name or guid

References

Associated SBDI web service: https://api.biodiversitydata.se/#ws80

See also

sbdi_config

Examples

if (FALSE) {
 species_info("Diatoma tenuis")
 species_info(guid="NHMSYS0000080188")
 species_info("Diatoma",verbose=TRUE)
}