CoL25.2: Catalogue of Life
Citation
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Ma, K., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Adlard, R., et al. (2025). Catalogue of Life (Version 2025-02-13). Catalogue of Life, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgnfb
Availability:
 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
The Catalogue of Life (CoL) is an assembly of expert-based global species checklists with the aim to build a comprehensive catalogue of all known species of organisms on Earth. moreAs a global species checklist, continuous progress is made towards completion of the Catalogue of Life, but for now, it probably includes just over 80% of the world’s known species. The Catalogue of Life estimates 2.3M extant species on the planet recognised by taxonomists at present time. This means that for many groups it continues to be deficient, and users may notice that many species are still missing from the Catalogue. Scope Themes: Biology Keywords: Biota · Species identification · World · Biota Geographical coverage World [Marine Regions] Taxonomic coverage
Biota [WoRMS]
Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, co-ordinator, database developer, data creator
Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Data collection
Release date: 2025-02-13
Metadatarecord created: 2025-07-30
Information last updated: 2025-07-31
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