A dataset containing the most relevant taxonomic
information of the kingdom Animalia stored in the
Global Biodiversity Information Facility,
taxonomic backbone, including all taxonomic levels (i.e.
infra-species, species, genus, family and so on).
The
original backbone was slightly edited aiming to standardize the
notation across backbones provided in plantRdata. Many columns
in the original source that were not essential for the process of
taxon name checking were removed and most of them were renamed.
Duplicated scientific names (i.e. taxon name + author) whose
taxon status were not accepted were also removed to avoid
possible problems in the taxon name matching process.
data(gbifNamesAnimalia)An object of class data.frame with 14 columns and over 3.7 million rows.
Last update/change of the downloaded backbone (year-month-day):
2023-08-28.
GBIF Secretariat. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-08-28..