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World List of Octocorallia
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McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L. (2025). World List of Octocorallia. Accessed at https://www.marinespecies.org/octocorallia/ on yyyy-mm-dd. https://doi.org/10.14284/749
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This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
A world checklist of Octocorallia, compiled by taxonomic experts and based on peer-reviewed literature. more
This World List of Octocorallia is part of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), a global initiative to provide an online register of scientific names of all marine organisms. In this continuously updated list, users can find the current taxonomic classification of octocorals, with valid and invalid names of taxa, their distributions, literature and historical citations.
This World List of Octocorallia is part of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), a global initiative to provide an online register of scientific names of all marine organisms. In this continuously updated list, users can find the current taxonomic classification of octocorals, with valid and invalid names of taxa, their distributions, literature and historical citations.
This list started as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms by L.P. van Ofwegen, S.D. Cairns & J. van der Land (eds) (2000-2007). Originally maintained by L.P. van Ofwegen as a list of valid octocoral species, since 2019 it has been revised and updated to include all valid and invalid names of taxa with links to original descriptions and other taxonomic literature.
Scope
Themes:
Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Invertebrates
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Classification, Marine invertebrates, Species, Taxonomy, World Waters, Octocorallia
Geographical coverage
World Waters [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
From 1758 on [In Progress]
Taxonomic coverage
Octocorallia [WoRMS]
Parameters
Taxonomy
Contributors
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), more, database developer
McFadden, Catherine, data manager, data creator, taxonomic editor
Cordeiro, Ralf, data creator, taxonomic editor
Samimi-Namin, Kaveh, data creator, taxonomic editor
Williams, Gary, data creator
van Ofwegen, Leen, data creator
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WoRMS: World Register of Marine Species, more
Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Literature research
Metadatarecord created: 2021-07-19
Information last updated: 2025-05-28
