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rcatfish

An R Interface to the California Academy of Sciences Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes

v1.0.2 · Feb 19, 2026 · GPL (>= 2)

Description

Accesses the California Academy of Sciences Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes in R using web requests. The Catalog of fishes is the leading authority in fish taxonomy. Functions in the package allow users to search for fish taxa and valid names, retrieve taxonomic references, retrieve monthly taxonomic changes, obtain natural history collection information, and see the number of species by taxonomic group. For more information on the Catalog: Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & R. van der Laan (eds) 2025. ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES <https://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp>.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies curl httr jsonlite lubridate magrittr qdapRegex (>= 0.7.2) RCurl rfishbase rvest (>= 0.3.2) stringr tidyr xml2 rcatfish

Version History

new 1.0.2 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.0.2 ← 1.0.1 diff Feb 18, 2026
updated 1.0.1 ← 1.0.0 diff Feb 15, 2026
new 1.0.0 Feb 2, 2026