Retrieve Taxon Children from Database

Queries the taxonomy table to find all child taxa of a given taxonID, using a recursive CTE. Returns a tibble with taxon details and depth levels.

get_taxon_children(taxonID, con, authority = "worms")

Arguments

taxonID

Character string of the parent taxonID to query

con

DuckDB database connection object

authority

Character string specifying the taxonomic authority (default: "worms")