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 = ala_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 ala_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 ALA web service: https://api.ala.org.au/#ws80

See also

ala_config

Examples

if (FALSE) {
 species_info("Grevillea humilis subsp. maritima")
 species_info(guid = "http://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2890970")
 species_info("Alaba", verbose = TRUE)
}