Database Details : World List of Cephalochordata
| Database Qualifiers | |
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| Coverage: |
Global |
| Completeness: | 100% |
| Checklist confidence: |
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| Full name: | World List of Cephalochordata UPDATED! |
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| Short name: | WoRMS Cephalochordata |
| Version: | 2019-03-05 |
| Release date: | 2019-03-05 |
| Authors/editors: | Nishikawa T. |
| Taxonomic coverage: | Animalia - Chordata - Cephalochordata |
| English name of the group: | Lancelets |
| Number of living species | 30 |
| Number of living infraspecific taxa | 0 |
| Number of extinct species: | 0 |
| Number of extinct infraspecific taxa: | 0 |
| Number of synonyms: | 26 |
| Number of common names: | 22 |
| Total number of names: | 78 |
| Abstract: | The list now includes 31 valid species and 21 junior synonyms. However, future molecular studies will reveal many cryptic species, some of which will recover the presently invalidated junior synonyms. |
| Organization: | Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Toho University, Ota City, Tokyo, Japan |
| Website: |
http://www.marinespecies.org |
| Bibliographic citation: | Nishikawa T. (2019). WoRMS Cephalochordata: World List of Cephalochordata (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. |