| Full name: |
World List of Marine Oligochaeta UPDATED!
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| Short name: |
WoRMS Oligochaeta |
| Version: |
2017-03-01 |
| Release date: |
2017-03-01 |
| Authors/editors: |
Timm T. & Erséus C. . |
| Taxonomic coverage: |
Animalia - Annelida - Clitellata - Capilloventrida, Crassiclitellata, Enchytraeida, Haplotaxida, Lumbriculida (subclass Oligochaeta) |
| English name of the group: |
Earthworms, oligochaetes |
|
Number of living species |
913 |
|
Number of living infraspecific taxa |
10 |
| Number of extinct species: |
0 |
| Number of extinct infraspecific taxa: |
0 |
| Number of synonyms: |
351 |
| Number of common names: |
8 |
| Total number of names: |
1,282 |
| 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: |
Centre for Limnology, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia |
| Website: |
http://www.marinespecies.org
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| Bibliographic citation: |
Timm T. & Erséus C. . (2017). WoRMS Oligochaeta: World List of Marine Oligochaeta (version 2017-03-01). 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. |
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