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Register of Resources (RoR)
WoRMS: World Register of Marine Species
Citable as data publication
WoRMS Editorial Board (2024). World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ. Accessed yyyy-mm-dd. https://doi.org/10.14284/170
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An authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine organisms, including information on synonymy. WoRMS contains both global and regional species lists. more
The aim of a World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is to provide an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine organisms, including information on synonymy. While highest priority goes to valid names, other names in use are included so that this register can serve as a guide to interpret taxonomic literature.
Scope Themes: Biology, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Brackish water, Classification, Species, Taxonomy, World Waters, Animalia, Bacteria, Chromista, Fungi, Plantae, Protozoa, Viruses Geographical coverage World Waters [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage
From 1758 on [In Progress] Taxonomic coverage
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Taxonomy Contributors
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), more, database developer
WoRMS Steering Committee (SC), data creator
WoRMS Editorial Board (WoRMS editors), data creator
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World List of Zoantharia World Nemertea Database, more World of Copepods World Ophiuroidea Database, more World Ostracoda Database World Placozoa Database, more World Polychaeta Database, more WPD: World Porifera Database, more WoRDSS: World Register of Deep-Sea Species, more WRiMS: World Register of Introduced Marine Species WoRCS: World Register of marine Cave Species World Remipedia Database, more World Sipuncula Database, more World Strepsiptera Database WoRMS checklist of Irish marine species WoRMS checklist of marine species from Greece WoRMS checklist of marine species from the Iberian Peninsula WoRMS checklist of marine species in Israel WoRMS checklist of marine species occurring in Polish marine waters WoRMS checklist of Swedish marine species WoRMS checklist of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores Source datasets: Algaebase, more FADA: Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment Index Fungorum Phylum Ctenophora: list of all valid species names The Reptile Database 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Publication
Based on this dataset
Horton, T.; Kroh, A.; Vandepitte, L. (2022). WoRMS needs YOU! A reply to Collareta et al. 2020. Integrative Biology 17(2): 326-327. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.12519
Costello, M.J. et al. (2021). Introducing the World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS). Manag. Biol. Inv. 12(4): 792-811. https://dx.doi.org/10.3391/mbi.2021.12.4.02
Hayward, B.W. et al. (2020). Foraminifera in the World Register of Marine Species (Worms) taxonomic database. J. Foramin. Res. 50(3): 291-300. https://dx.doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.50.3.291
Vandepitte, L. et al. (2018). A decade of the World Register of Marine Species – General insights and experiences from the Data Management Team: Where are we, what have we learned and how can we continue? PLoS One 13(4): e0194599. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194599
Horton, T. et al. (2017). Improving nomenclatural consistency: a decade of experience in the World Register of Marine Species. Eur. J. Taxon. 389: 1-24. https://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.389
Martínez, A. et al. (2017). World Register of Marine Cave Species: a tool for investigating meiofaunal diversity in marine and anchialine subterranean systems. World Register of Marine Cave Species (WoRCS): [s.l.]. 1 poster pp.
Vandepitte, L. et al. (2015). How Aphia - the platform behind several online and taxonomically oriented databases - can serve both the taxonomic community and the field of biodiversity informatics. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 3(4): 1448-1473. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jmse3041448
Appeltans, W. et al. (2012). The magnitude of global marine species diversity. Curr. Biol. 22(23): 2189-2202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.036
Describing this dataset
Costello, M.J. et al. (2013). Global coordination and standardisation in marine biodiversity through the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and related databases. PLoS One 8(1): 20 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051629
Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Data collection
Metadatarecord created: 2007-08-28
Information last updated: 2024-01-11
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