Match taxonomic names against locally stored Darwin Core backbone
    databases ('WFO', 'COL', 'GBIF', 'ITIS', 'NCBI Taxonomy', 'Open Tree of Life',
    'WoRMS', 'Euro+Med', 'Species Fungorum', 'AlgaeBase', 'FishBase',
    'SeaLifeBase', 'Reptile Database', 'LCVP', 'WCVP'). Provides offline fuzzy and exact
    matching with synonym resolution, hybrid name detection, and a unified output
    schema across all sources. All heavy computation runs in the 'vectra' C11
    columnar engine.

Interacts with a suite of web application programming interfaces
    (API) for taxonomic tasks, such as getting database specific taxonomic
    identifiers, verifying species names, getting taxonomic hierarchies, fetching
    downstream and upstream taxonomic names, getting taxonomic synonyms, converting
    scientific to common names and vice versa, and more. Some of the services
    supported include 'NCBI E-utilities' (<https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25501/>),
    'Encyclopedia of Life' (<https://eol.org/docs/what-is-eol/data-services>),
    'Global Biodiversity Information Facility' (<https://techdocs.gbif.org/en/openapi/>),
    and many more. Links to the API documentation for other supported services are
    available in the documentation for their respective functions in this package.

Download taxonomic databases, convert them into 'SQLite' format, 
    and query them locally for fast, reliable, and reproducible access to 
    taxonomic data.

Handling taxonomic lists through objects of class 'taxlist'.
    This package provides functions to import species lists from 'Turboveg'
    (<https://www.synbiosys.alterra.nl/turboveg/>) and the possibility to create
    backups from resulting R-objects.
    Also quick displays are implemented as summary-methods.

A collection of functions used to format taxonomic names in Markdown
    documents. Those functions work with data structured according to
    Alvarez and Luebert (2018) <doi:10.3897/bdj.6.e23635>.

Computes phylogenetic distances between any two taxa using 
    hierarchical lineage data retrieved from The Taxonomicon 
    <http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl>, a comprehensive curated classification 
    of all life based on Systema Naturae 2000 (Brands, 1989 
    <http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl>). Given any two taxon names, retrieves their 
    full lineages, identifies the most recent common ancestor (MRCA), 
    and computes a dissimilarity index based on lineage depth. Outputs 
    native dist objects, enabling direct integration with the R statistical 
    ecosystem for hierarchical clustering, principal coordinate analysis (PCoA), 
    and multivariate ecological analyses. Supports individual distance queries, 
    pairwise distance matrices, clade filtering, and lineage utilities.