February 22, 2024 / by Olaf Bánki
Monthly Release February 2024
Permanent identifier: https://doi.org/10.48580/dfvll
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. As a global consortium, we aim to address the needs of researchers, policy-makers, environmental managers and the wider public for a consistent and up-to-date listing of all the world’s known species. We are happy to announce that we have just published the COL Checklist February 2024 online!
The COL Checklist contains about 2,15 million accepted species. About 2,01 million are living species, and the rest are extinct. A large community of taxonomists, over 500 experts globally, representing 164 data sources is underpinning this global species list. Although the COL Checklist aspires to cover all described extant species, there are still deficiencies for particular taxonomic groups.
A detailed list of source changes can be found in ChecklistBank where you can also view changes between other releases.
What’s new in the February 2024 edition?
84 checklists updated:
- 3i Auchenorrhyncha
- Entiminae
- Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera)
- GLI (Lepidoptera)
- LWS fleas
- Scarabs
- Sesiidae (Lepidoptera)
- SF Dermaptera
- SF Embioptera
- SF Isoptera
- SF Orthoptera
- SF Plecoptera
- SF Psocodea
- Systema Dipterorum
- WCO (Opiliones)
- WOL (Odonata)
- World Ferns
- World Plants
- WWW
- WoRMS, 65 checklists
Other changes:
- Vertebrata classification updated (FishBase of Feb 2018 and ReptileDB of Nov 2021 re-synced)
- Hemiptera classification updated (all source datasets re-synced)
