Authoritative taxonomy source(s) for marine organisms?

We usually follow WoRMS for marine species, especially invertebrates. They are not always up to date, but if they aren’t it’s easy to tell by checking the referenced primary literature.

You can always flag these to have a discussion with other people. In this case it looks like WoRMS considers the name a nomen nudum, meaning it was never properly described. If you check the basis of record on the WoRMS page, you can see the literature that the taxonomy is based on (it lists this species as a nomen nudum). They also list the original description, which doesn’t actually have a description, making it a nomen nudum.

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