Copepod Fish Interaction Database

A curated list of copepod-fish ecological interaction records. It contains the taxonomy of the copepod and the fish and the publication from which the information was obtained. This database contains only marine and brackish water fish species. It excludes fish species that inhabit only freshwater.

This R packages contains an expert curated Copepod Fish database. This database was taxonomically curated by Francisco Neptalí Morales-Serna. The data cleaning, standarization and wrapping as an R packages was done by Ángel Luis Robles-Fernandez

Installation

You can install the development version of cofid from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("alrobles/cofid")
# load the data to your environment
data(cofid, "cofid")

Dataset

The dataset contains $7, 725$ copepod - fish interaction records. The fields in the data set are:

• source_taxon_external_id: the id number provided by World Register of Marine Species
• source_taxon_name: The scientific name of the copepod species
• source_taxon_path: Taxonomical hierarchy of the copepod. Only contains 7 levels
• source_specimen_life_stage: The life stage of the record
• interaction_type: The type of interaction between copepod and fish The records are mainly ectoparasitic (7654). There are 74 endoparasitic and 7 parasitic
• target_taxon_external_id: The host fish id number provided by World Register of Marine Species
• target_taxon_name: Host fish species scientific name
• target_taxon_path: Taxonomical hierarchy of the host fish. Only contains 7 levels
• target_specimen_life_stage: The life stage of the host fish
• study_citation: Original study where the record cand be found

Online access

You can try online the dataset.