Taxonomy hierarchy for zoolog

The taxonomy hierarchy for all taxa included in the osteometrical references of the package zoolog. This is used to allow the users to group the taxa by any taxonomical category from species to family. See Subtaxonomy.

zoologTaxonomy

Format

The taxonomy is given as a data.frame with columns for Species, Genus, Tribe, Subfamily, and Family. Each row lists the information for one species:

Species	Genus	Tribe	Subfamily	Family
Bos taurus	Bos	Bovini	Bovinae	Bovidae
Bos primigenius	Bos	Bovini	Bovinae	Bovidae
Ovis aries	Ovis	Caprini	Caprinae	Bovidae
Ovis orientalis	Ovis	Caprini	Caprinae	Bovidae
Capra hircus	Capra	Caprini	Caprinae	Bovidae
Capra aegagrus	Capra	Caprini	Caprinae	Bovidae
Gazella gazella	Gazella	Antilopini	Antilopinae	Bovidae
Sus domesticus	Sus	Suini	Suinae	Suidae
Sus scrofa	Sus	Suini	Suinae	Suidae
Cervus elaphus	Cervus	Cervini	Cervinae	Cervidae
Dama mesopotamica	Dama	Cervini	Cervinae	Cervidae
Equus asinus	Equus	Equini	Equinae	Equidae
Equus caballus	Equus	Equini	Equinae	Equidae
Oryctolagus cuniculus	Oryctolagus			Leporidae
Canis familiaris	Canis	Canini	Caninae	Canidae
Canis lupus	Canis	Canini	Caninae	Canidae

File Structure

zoologTaxonomy is an exported variable automatically loaded in memory. In addition, the csv source file zoologTaxonomy.csv generating it is included in the zoolog extdata folder.