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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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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 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
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), moredatabase developer
McFadden, Catherinedata managerdata creatortaxonomic editor
Cordeiro, Ralfdata creatortaxonomic editor
Samimi-Namin, Kavehdata creatortaxonomic editor
Williams, Garydata creator
van Ofwegen, Leendata 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
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