Query taxon name against GBIF backbone

Queries a taxon name against the GBIF names backbone. Simple wrapper around the rgbif `name_backbone_verbose` function.

Usage

name_search_gbif(name, match = "single")

Arguments

name

(character) A taxon name

match

(character) Controls the output of the search. Use `single` to force a single match result that has the highest confidence or `any` to return all possible matches sorted in order of confidence

species_rank

(character) Default TRUE returns matches at species level, otherwise FALSE returns any taxonomic rank

Value

Returns a data frame with initial search term and matching name(s)

Examples

name_search_gbif("Poa annua L.")
#> # A tibble: 1 × 10
#>   searchName   usageKey scientificName status   rank    confidence family  genus
#>   <chr>           <int> <chr>          <ord>    <chr>        <int> <chr>   <chr>
#> 1 Poa annua L.  2704179 Poa annua L.   ACCEPTED SPECIES        100 Poaceae Poa  
#> # ℹ 2 more variables: species <chr>, authorship <chr>