list_wiki_syn {taxotools}

Get Wikipedia Synonyms for list of names

Description

Fetch Synonyms from Wikipedia and clean them for use

Usage

list_wiki_syn(namelist, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

namelist

list of scientific names

verbose

status output. Default TRUE

Value

a data frame containing names, synonyms and Canonical synonyms matched with is scientific name backbone taxonomy

Name

: Scientific name

WikiName

: Wikipedia page name

OrigSyn

: Original synonym returned by Wikipedia

Syn

: Synonym in canonical form, matched with GBIF

Examples

 list_wiki_syn("Abrothrix illutea")
 list_wiki_syn(c("Abditomys latidens", "Abeomelomys sevia",
                 "Abrocoma schistacea"))