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World Placozoa Database Citable as data publication Schierwater, B.; Eitel, M.; Osigus, H.-J.; DeSalle, R. (2024). World Placozoa Database. Accessed at https://www.marinespecies.org/placozoa on yyyy-mm-dd. https://doi.org/10.14284/655 Contact: Schierwater, Bernd Availability:  This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description A world checklist of Placozoa, compiled by taxonomic experts and based on peer-reviewed literature. more This is the smallest of all animal databases yet; it contains a single nominal species, Trichoplax adhaerens. A second species that is sometimes mentioned, Treptoplax reptans, has never been found again after its first and only report and is most likely a fragmented placozoan [2]. With only one species the phylum knows only three taxonomic ranks: Phylum (Placozoa), genus (Trichoplax), and species (T. adhaerens). This situation is soon to change radically. Genetic analyses have suggested that Placozoa harbor at least seven major species clades, which may represent different orders, each with multiple families. The placozoan species database will be updated immediately when a relevant manuscript becomes accepted. Please send information to Bernd Schierwater. Scope Themes: Biology, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Classification, Marine invertebrates, Species, Taxonomy, World Waters, Placozoa Geographical coverage World Waters [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage From 1758 on [In Progress] Taxonomic coverage Placozoa [WoRMS] Parameters Taxonomy Contributors Schierwater, Bernd, data manager, data creator, taxonomic editor Eitel, Michael, data creator, taxonomic editor Osigus, Hans-Jürgen, data creator, taxonomic editor DeSalle, Rob, data creator Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, database developer Related datasets Published in: WoRMS: World Register of Marine Species, more Dataset status: In Progress Data type: Data Data origin: Literature research Metadatarecord created: 2012-07-16 Information last updated: 2024-01-31 | ||||
