As a consequence of WoRMS, we are witnessing improved communication within the scientific community, and anticipate increased taxonomic efficiency and quality control in marine biodiversity research and management.Ĭitation: Costello MJ, Bouchet P, Boxshall G, Fauchald K, Gordon D, Hoeksema BW, et al. These developments have a multiplier effect on its potential as a resource for biodiversity research and management. Species are being categorised as introduced (alien, invasive), of conservation importance, and on other attributes. WoRMS' content is expanding to include host-parasite relationships, additional literature sources, locations of specimens, images, distribution range, ecological, and biological data. The service manages information on species names that would otherwise be overly costly for individuals, and thus minimises errors in the application of nomenclature standards. Usage has grown linearly since its launch in 2007, with about 600,000 unique visitors to the website in 2011, and at least 90 organisations from 12 countries using WoRMS for their data management.īy providing easy access to expert-validated content, WoRMS improves quality control in the use of species names, with consequent benefits to taxonomy, ecology, conservation and marine biodiversity research and management. Associated information includes 150,000 literature sources, 20,000 images, and locations of 44,000 specimens.

At present WoRMS contains 460,000 taxonomic names (from Kingdom to subspecies), 368,000 species level combinations of which 215,000 are currently accepted marine species names, and 26,000 related but non-marine species. To avoid duplication of effort, content is exchanged with 10 external databases. Over 240 editors from 133 institutions and 31 countries manage the content. Within WoRMS, over 100 global, 12 regional and 4 thematic species databases are integrated with a common taxonomy. Here we illustrate the scale of the problems with species names, synonyms, and their classification, and describe how WoRMS publishes online quality assured information on marine species. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.The World Register of Marine Species is an over 90% complete open-access inventory of all marine species names. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.

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