FishPhyloMaker

FishPhyloMaker is an R package to generate phylogenies for ray-finned fishes. The package has two functions FishTaxaMaker and FishPhyloMaker. The first generate a data frame from fish species names provided by the user, checking the validity of these names and possible synonyms by using the information presented in Fishbase database through the package rfishbase . Species that were not found in Fishbase are printed in the command line, and the user must inform manually the Family and the Order of these species.