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URMO: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms
Citation
Land J. van der (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo. Accessed on yyyy-mm-dd. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/1672

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Description
A world register of marine organisms more

The UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) was the first attempt to compile an electronic list of all marine species during the 1990’s. It was invented and developed by Jacob van der Land at the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden (and several colleagues). The URMO list is no longer actively maintained and is completely adopted by the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). URMO and other databases (such as the European Register of Marine Species) were the starting points for the current World Register of Marine Species.

URMO is hosted by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) as a contribution to the "International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange" (IODE) programme of the "Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission" (IOC) of UNESCO, and as a memory to its creator Jacob van der Land.

Dr. Jacob van der Land passed away on Sunday 23 October 2011, 76 years old. He spent many of his productive years - before and after his retirement - on URMO, ERMS, and WoRMS. He was curator of worms (Vermes) and head of the department of Invertebrates of the former Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie (RMNH), later National Museum of Natural History, which presently is known as the Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis at Leiden, The Netherlands.


Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Fresh water, Brackish water, Classification, Species, Taxonomy, World Waters, Animalia, Chromista, Plantae, Protozoa

Geographical coverage
World Waters [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
1758 - 2011

Taxonomic coverage
Animalia [WoRMS]
Chromista [WoRMS]
Plantae [WoRMS]
Protozoa [WoRMS]

Parameters
Taxonomy

Contributors
UNESCO; UNESCO/IOC Project Office for IODE (IODE), moredata owner
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), moredatabase developer
Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis; National Museum of Natural History - Naturalis (Naturalis), moretaxonomic editorcollection manager

Related datasets
Published in:
WoRMS: World Register of Marine Species, more

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Literature research
Metadatarecord created: 2008-08-25
Information last updated: 2013-01-21
All data in the Integrated Marine Information System (IMIS) is subject to the VLIZ privacy policy