worrms is a R client for the World Register of Marine Species
More stable CRAN version
install.packages("worrms")Development version
devtools::install_github("ropensci/worrms")library("worrms")by date
wm_records_date('2016-12-23T05:59:45+00:00')
#> # A tibble: 50 x 25
#> AphiaID url
#> * <int> <chr>
#> 1 894298 http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=894298
#> 2 894301 http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=894301
#> 3 894297 http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=894297
#> 4 894302 http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=894302
#> 5 894296 http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=894296
#> 6 894299 http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=894299
#> 7 894303 http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=894303
#> 8 915236 http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=915236
#> 9 897486 http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=897486
#> 10 901957 http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=901957
#> # ... with 40 more rows, and 23 more variables: scientificname <chr>,
#> # authority <chr>, status <chr>, unacceptreason <lgl>, rank <chr>,
#> # valid_AphiaID <int>, valid_name <chr>, valid_authority <chr>,
#> # kingdom <chr>, phylum <chr>, class <chr>, order <chr>, family <chr>,
#> # genus <chr>, citation <chr>, lsid <chr>, isMarine <int>,
#> # isBrackish <lgl>, isFreshwater <lgl>, isTerrestrial <lgl>,
#> # isExtinct <int>, match_type <chr>, modified <chr>by a taxonomic name
wm_records_name(name = 'Platanista gangetica')
#> # A tibble: 3 x 25
#> AphiaID url
#> * <int> <chr>
#> 1 254967 http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=254967
#> 2 383571 http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=383571
#> 3 254969 http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=254969
#> # ... with 23 more variables: scientificname <chr>, authority <chr>,
#> # status <chr>, unacceptreason <lgl>, rank <chr>, valid_AphiaID <int>,
#> # valid_name <chr>, valid_authority <chr>, kingdom <chr>, phylum <chr>,
#> # class <chr>, order <chr>, family <chr>, genus <chr>, citation <chr>,
#> # lsid <chr>, isMarine <int>, isBrackish <lgl>, isFreshwater <int>,
#> # isTerrestrial <int>, isExtinct <lgl>, match_type <chr>, modified <chr>by many names
wm_records_names(name = c('Platanista gangetica', 'Coryphaena'))
#> [[1]]
#> # A tibble: 1 x 25
#> AphiaID url
#> * <int> <chr>
#> 1 254967 http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=254967
#> # ... with 23 more variables: scientificname <chr>, authority <chr>,
#> # status <chr>, unacceptreason <lgl>, rank <chr>, valid_AphiaID <int>,
#> # valid_name <chr>, valid_authority <chr>, kingdom <chr>, phylum <chr>,
#> # class <chr>, order <chr>, family <chr>, genus <chr>, citation <chr>,
#> # lsid <chr>, isMarine <lgl>, isBrackish <lgl>, isFreshwater <int>,
#> # isTerrestrial <lgl>, isExtinct <lgl>, match_type <chr>, modified <chr>
#>
#> [[2]]
#> # A tibble: 2 x 25
#> AphiaID url
#> * <int> <chr>
#> 1 125960 http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=125960
#> 2 843430 <NA>
#> # ... with 23 more variables: scientificname <chr>, authority <chr>,
#> # status <chr>, unacceptreason <chr>, rank <chr>, valid_AphiaID <int>,
#> # valid_name <chr>, valid_authority <chr>, kingdom <chr>, phylum <chr>,
#> # class <chr>, order <chr>, family <chr>, genus <chr>, citation <chr>,
#> # lsid <chr>, isMarine <int>, isBrackish <int>, isFreshwater <int>,
#> # isTerrestrial <lgl>, isExtinct <lgl>, match_type <chr>, modified <chr>by common name
wm_records_common(name = 'clam')
#> # A tibble: 2 x 25
#> AphiaID url
#> * <int> <chr>
#> 1 141919 http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141919
#> 2 141936 http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141936
#> # ... with 23 more variables: scientificname <chr>, authority <chr>,
#> # status <chr>, unacceptreason <lgl>, rank <chr>, valid_AphiaID <int>,
#> # valid_name <chr>, valid_authority <chr>, kingdom <chr>, phylum <chr>,
#> # class <chr>, order <chr>, family <chr>, genus <chr>, citation <chr>,
#> # lsid <chr>, isMarine <int>, isBrackish <lgl>, isFreshwater <lgl>,
#> # isTerrestrial <lgl>, isExtinct <lgl>, match_type <chr>, modified <chr>using the TAXMATCH algorithm
wm_records_taxamatch(name = 'Platanista gangetica')
#> [[1]]
#> # A tibble: 1 x 25
#> AphiaID url
#> * <int> <chr>
#> 1 254967 http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=254967
#> # ... with 23 more variables: scientificname <chr>, authority <chr>,
#> # status <chr>, unacceptreason <lgl>, rank <chr>, valid_AphiaID <int>,
#> # valid_name <chr>, valid_authority <chr>, kingdom <chr>, phylum <chr>,
#> # class <chr>, order <chr>, family <chr>, genus <chr>, citation <chr>,
#> # lsid <chr>, isMarine <lgl>, isBrackish <lgl>, isFreshwater <int>,
#> # isTerrestrial <lgl>, isExtinct <lgl>, match_type <chr>, modified <chr>worrms in R doing citation(package = 'worrms')