Database Details : World checklist of freshwater Copepoda species

Full name: World checklist of freshwater Copepoda species
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 living species 703
Number of living infraspecific taxa 68
Number of extinct species: 0
Number of extinct infraspecific taxa: 0
Number of synonyms: 59
Number of common names: 0
Total number of names: 830
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
Bibliographic citation: Boxshall G.A. & Defaye D. (2017). FADA Copepoda: World checklist of freshwater Copepoda species (version Aug 2009). 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.