Database Details : World List of Bryozoa
| Database Qualifiers | |
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| Coverage: |
Global |
| Completeness: | 100% |
| Checklist confidence: |
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| Full name: | World List of Bryozoa UPDATED! |
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| Short name: | WoRMS Bryozoa |
| Version: | 2018-04-01 |
| Release date: | 2018-04-01 |
| Authors/editors: | Bock P. & Gordon D. |
| Taxonomic coverage: | Animalia - Bryozoa |
| English name of the group: | Bryozoans, moss animals |
| Number of living species | 5,443 |
| Number of living infraspecific taxa | 156 |
| Number of extinct species: | 175 |
| Number of extinct infraspecific taxa: | 5 |
| Number of synonyms: | 684 |
| Number of common names: | 115 |
| Total number of names: | 6,578 |
| Abstract: | This first ever world database of extant marine bryozoan species is the result of long term accumulation of taxonomic information from the literature. It is the most recent and up-to-date census of the taxon available. Data have been contributed to the Catalogue of Life via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), hosted by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ). |
| Organization: | Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand |
| Website: |
http://www.marinespecies.org |
| Bibliographic citation: | Bock P. & Gordon D. (2018). WoRMS Bryozoa: World List of Bryozoa (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. |