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Synonyms for Currently Accepted Names

Source: R/synonyms_for_accepted_names.R
synonyms_for_accepted_names.Rd

This function generates lists a string of synonyms for currently accepted species and infra-species to facilitate working out past names of a taxon when the current name is known.

Usage

synonyms_for_accepted_names(
  accepted_names,
  collapse = TRUE,
  resources = load_taxonomic_resources()
)

Arguments

accepted_names

A character vector of currently accepted taxon names to look up synonyms for.

collapse

Offering the option to return a long data table with each synonym in its own row, versus collapsed into a vector for each accepted name

resources

Taxonomic resources loaded via load_taxonomic_resources().

Value

A table with the currently accepted name and columns documenting all synonyms and all synonyms with taxonomic status.

Examples

# \donttest{
synonyms_for_accepted_names(
  accepted_names = c("Justicia tenella", "Acacia aneura"),
  collapse = TRUE
)
#> Using cached taxonomic resources.
#> # A tibble: 2 × 5
#>   family      accepted_name    synonyms   scientific_name accepted_name_usage_ID
#>   <chr>       <chr>            <chr>      <chr>           <chr>                 
#> 1 Acanthaceae Justicia tenella Rostellul… Justicia tenel… https://id.biodiversi…
#> 2 Fabaceae    Acacia aneura    Acacia an… Acacia aneura … https://id.biodiversi…
# }