R: Lookup details for specific names in all taxonomies in GBIF.

gbif_name_usage {taxize} | R Documentation

## Lookup details for specific names in all taxonomies in GBIF.

### Description

This is a taxize version of the same function in the `rgbif` package so as to not have to import rgbif and thus require GDAL binary installation.

### Usage

    gbif_name_usage(key = NULL, name = NULL, data = "all", language = NULL,
      datasetKey = NULL, uuid = NULL, sourceId = NULL, rank = NULL,
      shortname = NULL, start = NULL, limit = 20, ...)

### Arguments

`key` | (numeric) A GBIF key for a taxon
`name` | (character) Filters by a case insensitive, canonical namestring, e.g. 'Puma concolor'
`data` | (character) Specify an option to select what data is returned. See Description below.
`language` | (character) Language, default is english
`datasetKey` | (character) Filters by the dataset's key (a uuid)
`uuid` | (character) A uuid for a dataset. Should give exact same results as datasetKey.
`sourceId` | (numeric) Filters by the source identifier. Not used right now.
`rank` | (character) Taxonomic rank. Filters by taxonomic rank as one of: CLASS, CULTIVAR, CULTIVAR_GROUP, DOMAIN, FAMILY, FORM, GENUS, INFORMAL, INFRAGENERIC_NAME, INFRAORDER, INFRASPECIFIC_NAME, INFRASUBSPECIFIC_NAME, KINGDOM, ORDER, PHYLUM, SECTION, SERIES, SPECIES, STRAIN, SUBCLASS, SUBFAMILY, SUBFORM, SUBGENUS, SUBKINGDOM, SUBORDER, SUBPHYLUM, SUBSECTION, SUBSERIES, SUBSPECIES, SUBTRIBE, SUBVARIETY, SUPERCLASS, SUPERFAMILY, SUPERORDER, SUPERPHYLUM, SUPRAGENERIC_NAME, TRIBE, UNRANKED, VARIETY
`shortname` | (character) A short name..need more info on this?
`start` | Record number to start at
`limit` | Number of records to return
`...` | Curl options passed on to `GET`

### Value

A list of length two. The first element is metadata. The second is either a data.frame (verbose=FALSE, default) or a list (verbose=TRUE)

### References

http://www.gbif.org/developer/summary

[Package taxize version 0.9.0 Index]