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List the accepted taxa within a genus or family

Source: R/browse.R
children.Rd

Returns the accepted taxa a backbone places inside a genus or family, so you can build a checklist from the backbone rather than only validating one. The parent is auto-detected: a genus is tried first, then a family.

Usage

children(taxon, backbone = NULL, rank = "species", verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

taxon

A single genus or family name.

backbone

A single backbone name (e.g. "wfo") or a taxify_backend object. NULL (default) uses the highest-priority installed backbone.

rank

Rank of the children to return ("species" by default), or "any" for every rank below the parent.

verbose

Logical. Default TRUE.

Value

A data.frame of accepted taxa, columns: name, authorship, rank, family, genus, taxon_id, parent_rank ("genus" or "family"), backbone. Empty if the parent is not found.

See also

synonyms(), taxify().

Examples

# Runs offline against the bundled example database.
old <- options(taxify.data_dir = taxify_example_data())

children("Quercus", backbone = "wfo")

options(old)