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\name{taxo_search}
\alias{taxo_search}
\title{Search The Taxonomicon for a taxon name}
\usage{
taxo_search(taxon, verbose = FALSE)
}
\arguments{
\item{taxon}{A character string giving the taxon name to search for.}

\item{verbose}{Logical. If \code{TRUE}, prints status messages. Default \code{FALSE}.}
}
\value{
A data frame of class \code{"data.frame"} with columns:
\describe{
\item{\code{id}}{Character. The numeric Taxonomicon ID.}
\item{\code{name}}{Character. The full taxon description, including rank and author.}
}
Returns \code{NULL} if no matches are found.
}
\description{
Queries The Taxonomicon database and returns a data frame of all available
biological entries matching the search string. This is particularly useful
for exploring homonyms, historical ranks, or taxonomic synonyms before
computing distances.
}
\examples{
\donttest{
taxo_search("Bacteria")
taxo_search("Nereis")
taxo_search("Tyrannosaurus")
}
}
\seealso{
\code{\link[=get_lineage]{get_lineage()}}, \code{\link[=taxo_distance]{taxo_distance()}}
}
