Retriving Aphia Information from World Register of Marine Species

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Documentation for package ‘worms’ version 0.2.2

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worms-package worms: Use WoRMS RESTful webservice to scrape Aphia information from World Register of Marine Species
northseamacrozoobenthos Over 1600 taxonomic, vernacular and trivial names of benthic critters from the North Sea
worms worms: Use WoRMS RESTful webservice to scrape Aphia information from World Register of Marine Species
wormsaccepted Constructs "accepted_id" column which contains the "AphiaID" of the respective "accepted" taxon
wormsbyid GET AphiaRecordByAphiaID
wormsbymatchnames GET AphiaRecordsByMatchNames
wormsbynames GET AphiaRecordsByNames
wormsconsolidate Recursivly retrieves respective "accepted" AphiaRecords for all synonyms if not already there