World List of Octocorallia
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McFadden, C.S.; Cordeiro, R.; Samimi-Namin, K.; Hoeksema, B.W., Williams, G.; van Ofwegen, L.P. (2026). 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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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.
Scope Themes: Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Invertebrates Keywords: Marine/Coastal · Brackish water · Classification · Marine invertebrates · Species · Taxonomy · World Waters · World Oceans · Octocorallia Geographical coverage World Oceans [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage
From 1758 on [In Progress] Taxonomic coverage
Octocorallia [WoRMS]
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Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (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 Hoeksema, Bert, data creator, taxonomic editor Williams, Gary, data creator, taxonomic editor van Ofwegen, Leen, data creator, taxonomic editor
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Published in: 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: 2026-02-23
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