This package was developed to facilitate the processes of reptile nomenclature update based on a search for species synonyms according to The Reptile Databse website (Uetz et al., 2025).
Currently, the package access many species information from The Reptile Database using R interface.
I hope it to be useful, to people trying to match databases from different sources (IUCN, species traits database, etc), or trying to get summaries from a given higher taxa or region (e.g.: Snakes from Brazil). But it can also just print single species information directly in R.
Any feedback, suggestion or request are welcome!
To install the stable version of this package user must run:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("joao-svalencar/letsRept", ref="main")
library(letsRept)To access the full list of functions with clear examples, browse the package vignettes:
browseVignettes("letsRept")The package counts with a full list of current valid species
(allReptiles - 12,440 species) with their respective higher
taxa information (updated to 23th of May, 2025);
A dataset with all unique synonyms for each current valid species
(allSynonyms - 53,159 entries - updated to 23th of May,
2025);
Another synonyms dataset with all entries considering their
respective references (allSynonymsRef110,413 entries -
updated to 23rd of May, 2025).
reptAdvancedSearch link testing and result
summaryreptSynonym batch sampling and tryCatch()
mechanismreptSpecies() with parallel samplingreptSynonyms() with parallel samplingreptSync upgradereptSplitCheck)AmphiNom::asw_stats()
(Liedtke, 2018)To cite this package in publications, run:
citation("letsRept")⚠️ Important note:
letsRept retrieves valuable taxonomic and synonymy data
directly from The Reptile
Database.. When citing this package, please also cite the original
database as a data source.
Liedtke, H. C. (2018). AmphiNom: an amphibian systematic tool. Systematics and Biodiversity, 17(1) 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2018.1518935
Uetz, P., Freed, P, Aguilar, R., Reyes, F., Kudera, J. & Hošek, J. (eds.) (2025) The Reptile Database. http://www.reptile-database.org
Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo dos Santos (joaopaulo.valencar@gmail.com)
Ph.D in Ecology at USP
Post-Doc at: Laboratório de Evolução e Diversidade I - “LED 1” - Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC, São Bernardo do Campo, SP – Brazil