Open twhiteaker opened 6 years ago
It looks like they do!
@twhiteaker We've been struggling with a lot of this at our center, too. I have used the taxize package in the past, but it can be very time-consuming in the absence of taxonomic serial numbers (usually the case), and can be sluggish depending on your Internet connection (though I know taxize can be used to query a local SQL database, I just haven't tried that option out yet). I'd be interested in exploring the solutions @srearl proposed to see if they address all of our challenges.
Given this list (without the parentheses part):
Asteroidea (class) Astarte montagui (species) Lasaeidae (family) Nuculana sp. (genus) Nuculona (misspelled) Costelloleda (synonym for Nuculana)
I'd like a couple of tools: