Metadata Catalogue
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
The aim of 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.
The content of WoRMS is controlled by taxonomic experts, which are technically supported by the Database Management Team.
Aphia, the consolidated database behind WoRMS, contains valid species names, synonyms and vernacular names, and extra information such as literature and biogeographic data. Besides species names, Aphia also contains the higher classification in which each scientific name is linked to its parent taxon. The classification used is a ‘compromise’ between established systems and recent changes. Its aim is to aid data management, rather than suggest any taxonomic or phylogenetic opinion on species relationships.
Default
- Date ( Publication)
- 2015-09-04
- Status
- Completed
- Keywords
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marinea
- Keywords
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global data
- Keywords
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taxonomy
- Access constraints
- Intellectual property rights
- Use limitation
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The text on the WoRMS pages is open-access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY). This License permits unrestricted use, provided it is cited as requested on the WoRMS webpages, unless stated otherwise on the individual pages. Images are by default open-access under the terms of the CC BY-NC-SA license, unless stated otherwise. Re-distribution of the entire database is not permitted, unless by prior written agreement. This is mainly to avoid circulation of (quickly) outdated copies of WoRMS, accessible through different pathways, which can lead to confusion for our many users.
- OnLine resource
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WoRMS Web address
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
- Service Name
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WoRMS webservices
- Service Description
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As a user or developer you can use the WoRMS webservice to feed your own application with standard WoRMS data.
A non exhaustive list of applications:
- get the AphiaID for your taxon
- check the spelling of your taxa
- get the authority for your taxa
- get the full classification for your taxa
- resolve your unaccepted names to accepted ones
- get all synonyms for a taxon
- fuzzy/near match your species list
- resolve a common name/vernacular to a scientific name
- get the common name(s)/vernacular(s) for a taxon
- get the sources/references for a taxon
- get the WoRMS citation for a taxon
- get the direct children for a taxon
- get all taxa modified during a time interval
- get an external identifier for a taxon
- get the AphiaID for an external identifier/database
- get all distributions for a taxon
- get all attributes for a taxon
- Service Reference (id)
- Service Name
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WRiMS webservices
- Service Description
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As a user or developer you can use the WoRMS webservice to feed your own application with standard WoRMS data.
A non exhaustive list of applications:
- get the AphiaID for your taxon
- check the spelling of your taxa
- get the authority for your taxa
- get the full classification for your taxa
- resolve your unaccepted names to accepted ones
- get all synonyms for a taxon
- fuzzy/near match your species list
- resolve a common name/vernacular to a scientific name
- get the common name(s)/vernacular(s) for a taxon
- get the sources/references for a taxon
- get the WoRMS citation for a taxon
- get the direct children for a taxon
- get all taxa modified during a time interval
- get an external identifier for a taxon
- get the AphiaID for an external identifier/database
- get all distributions for a taxon
- get all attributes for a taxon
- Service Reference (id)
- Service Name
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worrms R package
- Service Description
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worrms is a R client for the World Register of Marine Species REST webservices ( http://www.marinespecies.org/rest).
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 the 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.
The content of WoRMS is controlled by taxonomic and thematic experts, not by database managers. WoRMS has an editorial management system where each taxonomic group is represented by an expert who has the authority over the content, and is responsible for controlling the quality of the information. Each of these main taxonomic editors can invite several specialists of smaller groups within their area of responsibility to join them.
- Service Reference (id)
Metadata
- File identifier
- 3b402aca-5241-47e8-a96b-02eeeb97fec5 XML
- Metadata language
- en
- Hierarchy level
- Virtual Research Environment
- Metadata Schema Version
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1.0
