8ef7b8b6-77c0-42c2-bb2c-5db39bb89faf v0.1.0 Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS) 2022-01-05 The objective of RAMS is to compile and manage an authoritative taxonomic list of species occurring in the Antarctic marine environment, for establishing a standard reference for marine biodiversity research, conservation and sustainable management. The taxonomic scope of RAMS covers Antarctic species from the three realms of the Southern Ocean: the sea floor (meio-, macro- and megazoobenthos; micro- and macrophytobenthos), the water column (phytoplankton, zooplankton, nekton) and the sea-ice. A series of preliminary species lists of Antarctic marine invertebrates, mostly for macrobenthic groups, were compiled by Andrew Clarke and Nadine Johnston of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), with funding from the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office and British Antarctic Survey. These lists have been or are being checked and updated by taxonomic experts. RAMS is managed by an Editorial Board comprising an Executive Committee and associate Taxonomic Editors. The RAMS Executive Committee plays an advising role in the development of RAMS and proposes Taxonomic Editors. It links with the SCAR-MarBIN International Steering Committee. Peter Desmet Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) peter.desmet@inbo.be https://metadatacatalogue.lifewatch.eu/srv/api/records/8ef7b8b6-77c0-42c2-bb2c-5db39bb89faf/attachments/RAMS2.png marine taxonomy regional data Antartica The text on the RAMS 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 RAMS 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 This is mainly to avoid circulation of (quickly) outdated copies of RAMS, accessible through different pathways, which can lead to confusion for our many users. RAMS webservice https://marinespecies.org/rams/aphia.php?p=webservice As a user or developer you can use the RAMS webservice to feed your own application with standard RAMS 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 RAMS 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. Webservice data analysis data processing https://marinespecies.org/rams WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link RAMS Web address