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A versioned and dynamically updating taxonomic lookup table for land plants
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.12517/abstract
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Add genus to subfamily lookup #44

Open wcornwell opened 5 years ago

wcornwell commented 5 years ago

Would be extra-useful for Asteraceae and Fabaceae and other big families.

But not sure what the right source is to get this information for the whole set of global genera.

paleobotany commented 5 years ago

Thanks Will. I think one possibility could be NCBI taxonomy databases, which include lower ranks (e.g. tribes, subfamilies). But not completely sure if the whole set of genera of those big families are represented at NCBI.

wcornwell commented 5 years ago

maybe via https://github.com/ropensci/taxize/blob/master/R/ncbi_get_taxon_summary.R ?