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World Collembola Catalog
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Cheng, H.-J., Arbea, J., Ariño, A.H., Babenko, A., Baquero Martín, E., Burkhardt, U., Cavalcante Bellini, B., Collins, G.E., Cramphorn, B., Deharveng, L., D'Haese, C.A., Grujić, N.Z., Jordana, R., Kasai, H., Katz, A., Kovac, L., Mateos, E., Nunes Godeiro, N., Palacios Vargas, J.G., Potapov, M., Ross, G.M., Schneider, C., Soto-Adames, F.N., Sun, X., Valle, B., Weiner, W.M., Xie, Z., Yu, D., Zeppelini, D., Potapov, A. (2026). World Collembola Catalog. Accessed at https://collembola.org on yyyy-mm-dd. https://doi.org/10.14284/824
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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
Welcome to the World Collembola Catalogue! Here you will find an up-to-date global list of described Collembola species, with related literature, distribution data, photographs, and links to identification keys. The catalogue builds on the work of Peter F. Bellinger, Kenneth A. Christiansen, and Frans Janssens during 1996-2024.
morePlease note the site is currently under construction, so some features may not yet be available. The previous version, Checklist of Collembola of the World, can be found here: https://collembola.naturkundemuseum-goerlitz.de
Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Invertebrates
Keywords:
Terrestrial · Classification · Taxonomy · World · Collembola
Geographical coverage
World [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
From 1758 on [In Progress]
Taxonomic coverage
Collembola [WoRMS]
Parameters
Taxonomy
Contributors
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), more, database developer
Cheng, Hsin-Ju, data creator, taxonomic editor
Related datasets
Published in:
WoRMS: World Register of Marine Species, more
Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Literature research
Metadatarecord created: 2026-10-12
Information last updated: 2026-10-12
