Database details : World checklist of freshwater Copepoda species

Full name: World checklist of freshwater Copepoda species NEW!
Short name: FADA Copepoda
Version: Aug-2009
Release date: 2009-08-24
Authors/editors: Boxshall G.A. & Defaye D.
Taxonomic coverage: Animalia - Arthropoda - Maxillopoda - Calanoida, Poecilostomatoida
English name of the group: Copepods
Number of species 703
Number of infraspecific taxa 68
Number of synonyms: 59
Number of common names: 0
Total number of names: 762
Abstract: The checklist is supplied for the Catalogue of Life by FADA project. FADA, the Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment is an informal network of scientists specialized in freshwater biodiversity. FADA contributes freshwater taxa in the CoL proto-GSD.
Organization: Natural History Museum, London, UK; Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.
Website: http://fada.biodiversity.be