Parse scientific names using EOL's name parser.

gni_parse(names, ...)

Arguments

names

A vector of length 1 or more of taxonomic names

...

Curl options passed on to crul::verb-GET

Value

A data.frame with results, the submitted names, and the parsed names with additional information.

References

http://gni.globalnames.org/

Examples

if (FALSE) {
gni_parse("Cyanistes caeruleus")
gni_parse("Plantago minor")
gni_parse("Plantago minor minor")
gni_parse(c("Plantago minor minor","Helianthus annuus texanus"))

# pass on curl options
gni_parse("Cyanistes caeruleus", verbose = TRUE)
}