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type: software
license: MIT
title: 'letsRept: An Interface to the Reptile Database'
version: 1.1.1
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.letsRept
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.letsRept
abstract: Provides tools to retrieve and summarize taxonomic information and synonymy
  data for reptile species using data scraped from The Reptile Database website (<https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/>).
  Outputs include clean and structured data frames useful for ecological, evolutionary,
  and conservation research.
authors:
- family-names: Vieira-Alencar
  given-names: João Paulo dos Santos
  email: joaopaulo.valencar@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6894-6773
- family-names: Liedtke
  given-names: Christoph
  email: christoph.liedtke@ebd.csic.es
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6221-8043
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: 'letsRept: An Interface to the Reptile Database'
  authors:
  - family-names: Vieira-Alencar
    given-names: João Paulo Santos
  - family-names: Liedtke
    given-names: H. Christoph
  year: '2025'
  notes: R package version 1.1.0
  url: https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.letsRept
  doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.letsRept
repository: https://joao-svalencar.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/joao-svalencar/letsRept
commit: d4c08514515c1df7c3be335983f6e696fe56ea81
url: https://joao-svalencar.github.io/letsRept/
date-released: '2026-03-27'
contact:
- family-names: Vieira-Alencar
  given-names: João Paulo dos Santos
  email: joaopaulo.valencar@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6894-6773
references:
- type: article
  title: 'letsRept: An R Package to Access the Global Reptile Database and Facilitate
    Taxonomic Harmonization'
  authors:
  - family-names: Vieira-Alencar
    given-names: João Paulo Santos
  - family-names: Liedtke
    given-names: H. Christoph
  - family-names: Meiri
    given-names: Shai
  - family-names: Roll
    given-names: Uri
  - family-names: Uetz
    given-names: Peter
  - family-names: Nori
    given-names: Javier
  year: '2025'
  journal: Biodiversity Informatics
  volume: '19'
  notes: https://doi.org/10.17161/bi.v19i.24329
  start: 120-143
- type: generic
  title: The Reptile Database
  authors:
  - family-names: Uetz
    given-names: Peter
  - family-names: Freed
    given-names: Paula
  - family-names: Aguilar
    given-names: Rafael
  - family-names: Reyes
    given-names: Felipe
  - family-names: Kudera
    given-names: Jiri
  - family-names: Hošek
    given-names: Jiri
  year: '2026'
  notes: 'Accessed on May 26, 2026. Available at: http://www.reptile-database.org'