as_accepted {benthos}

Convert Taxon Names to Comply with WoRMS/TWN

Description

Taxon names are standardized according to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) database. The conversion is case-insensitive. For this conversion, the TWN-list (Taxa Water management the Netherlands) is used, extended with species of the Southern North Sea. See references below for download locations.

Usage

as_accepted(taxon, taxa = NULL)

Arguments

taxon

character vector, containing taxon names

taxa

an optional table usually created with read_taxa.

Value

character vector with WoRMS/TWN compliant species names

References

https://www.marinespecies.org/

https://taxainfo.nl/