World Hydrozoa Database


Short name
WoRMS Hydrozoa
Full name
World Hydrozoa Database
Version / Issued
2025-04-01 / 2025-04-01
Contact
Schuchert, Peter
Editor
Schuchert, Peter
Choong, Henry
Galea, Horia
Hoeksema, Bert 0000-0001-8259-3783
Lindsay, Dhugal
Mańko, Maciej 0000-0001-6872-0256
Pica, Daniela
Contributor
WoRMS Editorial Board
Royal British Columbia MuseumUS
Hydrozoan Research LaboratoryFR
Naturalis Biodiversity Center Department of Marine ZoologyNL
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and TechnologyJP
University of GdańskPL
University of Salento Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche e AmbientaliIT
Vlaams Instituut voor de ZeeBE
Taxonomic coverage

Abstract

World Hydrozoa database comes from a list of accumulated taxonomic information assembled over the years from the literature of Wim Vervoort and Peter Schuchert (see Schuchert, 1989). The list of the Siphonophorae was provided by Gill Mapstone who also manages the species of this Order. The number of known hydrozoan species is about 3800, although the status of many nominal species is currently unclear. A considerable number of names also represent synonyms.

Taxonomic scope
hydroids
Geographic scope
Global
Temporal scope
1758-2025
License
cc by
Checklist Confidence
Completeness
98
ISSN
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GBIF key
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Identifiers
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Citation
Schuchert, P., Choong, H., Galea, H., Hoeksema, B., Lindsay, D., Mańko, M., & Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database (version 2025-04-01). In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, T. Pape, D. Hobern, S. Garnett, H. Little, R. E. DeWalt, K. Ma, J. Miller, T. Orrell, R. Aalbu, J. Abbott, R. Adlard, et al., Catalogue of Life (Version 2025-04-10). Catalogue of Life, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgplc-3cd
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