Database Details : World list of Cestoda
| Database Qualifiers | |
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| Coverage: |
Global |
| Completeness: | 100% |
| Checklist confidence: |
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| Full name: | World list of Cestoda |
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| Short name: | WoRMS Cestoda |
| Version: | Feb 2013 |
| Release date: | 2013-02-04 |
| Authors/editors: | Bray R. & Tyler S. |
| Taxonomic coverage: | Animalia - Platyhelminthes - Cestoda |
| English name of the group: | Tapeworms |
| Number of living species | 1,583 |
| Number of living infraspecific taxa | 6 |
| Number of extinct species: | 0 |
| Number of extinct infraspecific taxa: | 0 |
| Number of synonyms: | 309 |
| Number of common names: | 3 |
| Total number of names: | 1,901 |
| 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: | Department of Zoology, Natural History Museum, London, UK |
| Website: |
http://www.marinespecies.org |
| Bibliographic citation: | Bray R. & Tyler S. (2017). WoRMS Cestoda: World list of Cestoda (version Feb 2013). 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. |