Database details : World List of Holothuroidea
| Database qualifiers | |
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| Coverage: |
Global |
| Completeness: | 98% |
| Checklist confidence: |
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| Full name: | World List of Holothuroidea UPDATED! |
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| Short name: | WoRMS Holothuroidea |
| Version: | 2016-03-01 |
| Release date: | 2016-03-01 |
| Authors/editors: | Paulay G. |
| Taxonomic coverage: | Animalia - Echinodermata - Holothuroidea |
| English name of the group: | Sea cucumbers |
| Number of living species | 1,693 |
| Number of living infraspecific taxa | 34 |
| Number of extinct species: | 0 |
| Number of extinct infraspecific taxa: | 0 |
| Number of synonyms: | 1,728 |
| Number of common names: | 66 |
| Total number of names: | 3,521 |
| Abstract: | This global marine species list is part of the World Register of Marine Species database, which aims to provide the most authoritative list of names of all marine species globally. Data have been contributed to the Catalogue of Life via the WoRMS, hosted by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ). |
| Organization: | University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, USA |
| Website: |
http://www.marinespecies.org |
| Bibliographic citation: | Paulay G. (2025). WoRMS Holothuroidea: World List of Holothuroidea (version 2016-03-01). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2016 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Flann C., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., eds). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2016. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X. |