R Interface to FishBASE


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Documentation for package ‘rfishbase’ version 0.2-2

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familySearch A function to find all fish that are members of a scientific Family
findSpecies Returns the matching indices in the data given a list of species names
fish.data A cached copy of extracted FishBase data, 14 Febuary 2013.
fish_names Return the scientific names, families, classes, or orders of the input data
getDepth Returns available depth range data
getEnviroClimateRange get the Environment, Climate, and Range of a species.
getIds get fishbase id numbers
getLengthWeight get the length weight table
getMetabolism get metabolism table (oxygen consumption).
getPictures getPictures from the fishbase database
getQuantTraits Returns all quantitative trait values found in the morphology data
getRefs Returns the FishBase reference id numbers matching a query.
getSize Returns available size data of specified type (length, weight, or age)
getTrophicLevel get trophic level
habitatSearch A function to search for the occurances of any keyword in habitat description
labridtree An example phylogeny of labrid fish
loadCache Load an updated cache
updateCache Update the cached copy of fishbase data
which_fish which_fish is the the generic search function for fishbase a variety of description types