Database Details : World Echinoidea Database

Full name: World Echinoidea Database UPDATED!
Short name: WoRMS Echinoidea
Version: 2019-03-05
Release date: 2019-03-05
Authors/editors: Kroh A. & Mooi R.
Taxonomic coverage: Animalia - Echinodermata - Echinoidea
English name of the group: Sea urchins
Number of living species 1,014
Number of living infraspecific taxa 192
Number of extinct species: 3136
Number of extinct infraspecific taxa: 238
Number of synonyms: 2,598
Number of common names: 381
Total number of names: 7,559
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: Naturhistorische Museum, Vienna, Austria; Department of Invertebrate Zoology & Geology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco CA, USA
Website: http://www.marinespecies.org/echinoidea
Bibliographic citation: Kroh A. & Mooi R. (2019). WoRMS Echinoidea: World Echinoidea Database (version 2019-03-05). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2019 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Ower G., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2019. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.