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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 Contact: Availability:  This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description 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 Parameters Taxonomy Contributors Related datasets Parent dataset: Aphia, more Child datasets: 600 randomly selected marine species from WoRMS, described between 2013 and 2017 with metrics extracted from their original descriptions, more Personal Decapoda distribution Database for Europe, more Type locality distributions from the World Register of Marine Species, more Published datasets: AfReMaS: African Register of Marine Species, more AlgaeTraits: a trait database for (European) seaweeds (dataset), more AlgaeTraits: AlgaeTraits: a trait database for (European) seaweeds (portal), more ARMS: Arctic Register of Marine Species, more Ascidiacea World Database, more BeRMS: Belgian Register of Marine Species, more Black Sea checklist for Ocean-Ukraine & Sibema, more CaRMS: Canadian Register of Marine Species, more ChaRMS: Chinese Register of Marine Species, more Clarion-Clipperton Zone Species Checklist, more DecaNet: World List of Decapoda, more DiatomBase, more ERMS 2.0: European Register of Marine Species version 2, more Fauna Italia - Checklist of the species of the Italian Fauna, more FreshGEN: Freshwater Gastropods of the European Neogene database, more GCD: Global Compositae Database, more Gulf of Mexico Register of Marine Species, more Hans De Blauwe site, more Hemichordata World Database, more Hexacorallians of the world, more HKRMS: Hong Kong Register of Marine Species, more IOC-UNESCO Taxonomic Reference List of Harmful Micro Algae, more MSBIAS: Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas, more Marine Species Traits, more MilliBase, more MolluscaBase, more New Zealand Register of Marine Species (volume I), more NARMS: North Atlantic Register for Marine Species, more NSBP: North Sea Benthos Project, more NSBS: North Sea Benthos Survey, more Phoronida World Database, more PycnoBase: World Pycnogonida Database, more RAS: Register of Antarctic Species, more TISBE: Taxonomic Information System for the Belgian coastal area, more GCypD: The Global Cyperaceae Database, more The Mangrove Reference Database and Herbarium, more RAMS: The Register of Antarctic Marine Species, more URMO: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms, more WAD: World Amphipoda Database, more World Ascothoracida Database, more WAD: World Asteroidea Database, more WCD: World Cetacea Database, more World Ciliophora Database, more World Cumacea Database, more World Database of Euphausiacea, more World Database of Littoral Myriapoda, more Nemys: World Database of Nematodes, more WED: World Echinoidea Database, more World Foraminifera Database, more World Gastrotricha Database, more World Hydrozoa Database, more World Kinorhyncha Database, more World List of Acoelomorpha, more World List of Actiniaria, more World List of Antipatharia, more World List of Appendicularia, more World List of Bochusacea, more World List of Brachiopoda, more World List of Brachypoda, more World list of Cephalochordata, more World List of Ceriantharia, more World List of Cestoda, more World List of Chaetognatha, more World List of Corallimorpharia, more World List of Crinoidea, more World List of Cubozoa, more World List of Echiura, more World List of Gnathostomulida, more World List of Holothuroidea, more World List of Leptostraca, more World List of Lophogastrida, Stygiomysida and Mysida, more World List of Loricifera, more World List of marine Acanthocephala, more World List of marine Brachyura, more World List of Marine Oligochaeta, more World List of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans, more World List of Merostomata, more World List of Monogenea, more World List of Mystacocarida, more World List of Myxozoa, more World List of Octocorallia, more World List of Orthonectida, more World List of Polycystina (Radiolaria), more World List of Priapulida, more World list of Rhizocephala, more World List of Rhombozoa, more World List of Scleractinia, more World List of Scyphozoa, more World List of Staurozoa, more World List of Tanaidacea, more World List of Tantulocarida, more World list of Tardigrada, more World List of Thaliacea, more World List of Thermosbaenacea, more World List of Trematoda, more World list of turbellarian worms: Acoelomorpha, Catenulida, Rhabditophora, more World List of Xenoturbellida, more World List of Zoantharia, more World Nemertea Database, more World of Copepods, more World Ophiuroidea Database, more World Ostracoda Database, more 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, more WoRCS: World Register of marine Cave Species, more World Remipedia Database, more World Sipuncula Database, more World Strepsiptera Database, more WoRMS checklist of Irish marine species, more WoRMS checklist of marine species from Greece, more WoRMS checklist of marine species from the Iberian Peninsula, more WoRMS checklist of marine species in Israel, more WoRMS checklist of marine species occurring in Polish marine waters, more WoRMS checklist of Swedish marine species, more WoRMS checklist of the terrestrial and marine biota from the Azores, more Source datasets: Algaebase, more FADA: Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment, more Index Fungorum, more Phylum Ctenophora: list of all valid species names, more The Reptile Database, more World List of Bryozoa, more Previous version: VLIZ's Marine Species Register, more 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, more 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, more 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, more 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, more 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, more 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., more 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, more 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, more 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, more Dataset status: In Progress Data type: Data Data origin: Data collection Metadatarecord created: 2007-08-28 Information last updated: 2024-01-11 | ||||
