World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) Client

Client for World Register of Marine Species (< https://www.marinespecies.org/>). Includes functions for each of the API methods, including searching for names by name, date and common names, searching using external identifiers, fetching synonyms, as well as fetching taxonomic children and taxonomic classification.

worrms

worrms is a R client for the World Register of Marine Species

• World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) https://www.marinespecies.org/
• WoRMS REST API docs: https://www.marinespecies.org/rest/

See the taxize book (https://taxize.dev) for taxonomically focused work in this and similar packages.

Installation

More stable CRAN version

install.packages("worrms")

Development version

remotes::install_github("ropensci/worrms")

library("worrms")

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• License: MIT
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