Code for cleaning and merging Acari taxonomy for the Terrestrial Parasite Tracker
The R script in this repository was designed for cleaning taxonomic classifications received from various sources for the Terrestrial Parasite Tracker Thematic Collections Netowrk (TPT) Taxonomy Reource.
Input is required to be csv and is expected to include at least the following columns:
- kingdom
- phylum
- class
- order
- family
- genus
- species (specific epithet)
- taxon Author name (may be combined with or separate from published year)
- taxon published year
Other information may be included in the file, including ranks between the standard ranks listed above and subspecific epithets. NOTE All taxonomy fields are expected to include a single term, "species" is really "specific epithet" and "subspecies" is really "infraspecific epithet".