Search for taxon, including its descendent taxa (by default)

Search for taxon, including its descendent taxa (by default)

SearchForTaxon(taxon, data, other.names = NULL, db = "itis",
  descendant.ranks = c("family"))

Arguments

taxon	A taxon name
data	Data.frame from GetAllDataFromMultipleYears
other.names	A vector of other names you want to search for, typically common names
db	See ?taxize::downstream
descendant.ranks	Vector of ranks to look for.

Value

A data.frame with matches.