Retrieve immediate descendents of a taxon

children(x, db = "ncbi", verbose = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

x	(character) Vector of taxon keys for the given database
db	(character) The database to search, one of ncbi, itis, gbif, col, or wfo
verbose	(logical) Print verbose messages
...	Additional arguments passed to database specific function.

Value

list of tibbles with the columns: id, name, rank. This is exactly equivalent to the output of taxize::children()

Examples

if (FALSE) {
children(c(3700, 2))
children(c(154395, 154357), db="itis")
children("wfo-4000032377", db="wfo")
children(2877951, db="gbif")
children(3960765, db="col") # Abies
}