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MolluscaBase Citable as data publication MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Accessed at https://www.molluscabase.org on yyyy-mm-dd. https://doi.org/10.14284/448 Contact: Availability:  This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description MolluscaBase is a taxonomically oriented database which aims to provide an authoritative, permanently updated account of all molluscan species. more Mollusca are the second largest animal phylum on Earth after arthropods. The number of valid Recent species is currently estimated around 50,000 to 55,000 marine, 25,000 to 30,000 terrestrial and 6,000 to 7,000 freshwater. The number of fossil species is not known accurately, but is in the same order of magnitude and may range between 60,000 (a conservative guess, Taylor & Lewis, 2007) and more than 100,000 species. Subject to availability, the following information is provided for taxa included in MolluscaBase:
Scope Themes: Biology, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Invertebrates Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Fresh water, Brackish water, Terrestrial, Classification, Fossils, Species, Taxonomy, World, Mollusca Geographical coverage World [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage From 1758 on [In Progress] Taxonomic coverage Mollusca [WoRMS] Parameters Taxonomy Contributors Auffenberg, Kurt, taxonomic editor Bank, Ruud, taxonomic editor Bieler, Rüdiger, taxonomic editor Bouchet, Philippe, taxonomic editor Collins, Katie, taxonomic editor Dekker, Henk, taxonomic editor Faber, Marien, taxonomic editor Garcia-Alvarez, Oscar, taxonomic editor Godoy, Miguel Ángel, taxonomic editor Gofas, Serge, taxonomic editor Herbert, Dai, taxonomic editor Houart, Roland, taxonomic editor Janssen, Ronald, taxonomic editor Kabat, Alan, taxonomic editor Kantor, Yuri, taxonomic editor Karapunar, Baran, taxonomic editor Kovács, Zoltan, taxonomic editor Köhler, Frank, taxonomic editor Marshall, Bruce, taxonomic editor Neubauer, Thomas A., taxonomic editor Neubert, Eike, taxonomic editor Nielsen, Sven, taxonomic editor Picton, Bernard, taxonomic editor Páll-Gergely, Barna, taxonomic editor Richling, Ira, taxonomic editor Romani, Luigi, taxonomic editor Rosenberg, Gary, taxonomic editor Schneider, Simon, taxonomic editor Taylor, John, taxonomic editor ter Poorten, Jan Johan, taxonomic editor Todd, Jonathan, taxonomic editor Vinarski, Maxim, taxonomic editor Vos, Chris, taxonomic editor Wieneke, Ulrich, taxonomic editor Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, database developer MolluscaBase eds., more, data creator Related datasets Published in: WoRMS: World Register of Marine Species, more Dataset status: In Progress Data type: Data Data origin: Literature research Metadatarecord created: 2016-05-12 Information last updated: 2024-01-11 | ||||
