Database Details : World checklist of freshwater Nematomorpha species
| Database Qualifiers | |
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| Coverage: |
Global |
| Completeness: | 100% |
| Checklist confidence: |
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| Full name: | World checklist of freshwater Nematomorpha species |
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| Short name: | FADA Nematomorpha |
| Version: | Dec 2010 |
| Release date: | 2010-12-11 |
| Authors/editors: | Schmidt-Rhaesa A. |
| Taxonomic coverage: | Animalia - Nematomorpha - Gordioida |
| English name of the group: | Freshwater hairworms |
| Number of living species | 356 |
| Number of living infraspecific taxa | 0 |
| Number of extinct species: | 0 |
| Number of extinct infraspecific taxa: | 0 |
| Number of synonyms: | 0 |
| Number of common names: | 0 |
| Total number of names: | 356 |
| Abstract: | The checklist includes a list of all currently known and accepted species of freshwater hairworms (Nematomorpha), assembled in the Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment (FADA) project. Nematomorpha are parasites of terrestrial (in few cases aquatic) insects. For sexual reproduction, they leave their host by driving it into water and emerging there. Five species are marine, 356 species live in freshwater. Horsehair worms are found in many different aquatic habitats throughout the world. |
| Organization: | Zoological Museum, University Hamburg, Germany |
| Website: |
http://fada.biodiversity.be/group/show/7 |
| Bibliographic citation: | Schmidt-Rhaesa A. (2017). FADA Nematomorpha: World checklist of freshwater Nematomorpha species (version Dec 2010). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2017 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2017. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X. |