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Retriving Aphia Information from World Register of Marine Species

Retrieves taxonomic information from <http://www.marinespecies.org> using WoRMS' RESTful Webservice. Utility functions aim at taxonomic consistency.

Over 1600 taxonomic, vernacular and trivial names of benthic critters from the North Sea

worms: Use WoRMS RESTful webservice to scrape Aphia information from World Register of Marine Species

Constructs "accepted_id" column which contains the "AphiaID" of the respective "accepted" taxon

GET AphiaRecordByAphiaID

GET AphiaRecordsByMatchNames

GET AphiaRecordsByNames

Recursivly retrieves respective "accepted" AphiaRecords for all synonyms if not already there

Retriving Aphia Information from World Register of Marine Species

v0.2.2

GNU Affero General Public License

Authors

Jan Holstein [aut, cre, cph]

Initial release

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