| Full name: |
World of Copepods database NEW!
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| Short name: |
WoRMS Copepoda |
| Version: |
2018-04-01 |
| Release date: |
2018-04-01 |
| Authors/editors: |
Walter T.C. & Boxshall G. |
| Taxonomic coverage: |
Animalia - Arthropoda - Hexanauplia - (subclass Copepoda) - Calanoida, Cyclopoida, Gelyelloida, Harpacticoida, Misophrioida, Monstrilloida, Mormonilloida, Platycopioida, Poecilostomatoida, Siphonostomatoida |
| English name of the group: |
Copepods |
|
Number of living species |
14,693 |
|
Number of living infraspecific taxa |
480 |
| Number of extinct species: |
2 |
| Number of extinct infraspecific taxa: |
0 |
| Number of synonyms: |
7,002 |
| Number of common names: |
138 |
| Total number of names: |
22,315 |
| Abstract: |
This World Database of all species of Copepoda ever described, is part of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), a global initiative to provide a register of all marine organisms. Data have been contributed to the Catalogue of Life via WoRMS, hosted by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ). |
| Organization: |
Smithsonian Institution; Department of Invertebrate Zoology; Natural History Museum; Department of Zoology |
| Website: |
http://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda
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| Bibliographic citation: |
Walter T.C. & Boxshall G. (2018). WoRMS Copepoda: World of Copepods database (version 2018-04-01). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2018 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/2018. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X. |
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