Get All Children of a Taxon

Returns all taxa that have the specified taxon as their parent (directly or recursively). Uses the id_parent column for hierarchy traversal.

Usage

get_taxon_children(
  idtax_n,
  con = NULL,
  recursive = TRUE,
  include_self = FALSE,
  collect = TRUE
)

Arguments

idtax_n

The taxon ID to find children for

con

Database connection (optional, will create if NULL)

recursive

If TRUE (default), get all descendants; if FALSE, only direct children

include_self

If TRUE, include the taxon itself in results

collect

If TRUE (default), collect results to data frame

Value

Data frame of child taxa