Metadata Catalogue
World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRIMS)
WRIMS records which marine species in the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) have been introduced deliberately or accidentally by human activities to geographic areas outside their native range. It excludes species that colonized new locations naturally (so called 'range extensions'), even if in response to climate change.
WRIMS notes the origin (source location) of the species at a particular location by country, sea area and/or latitude longitude as available. If the species is reported to have caused ecological or economic impacts it is considered invasive in that location. Each record is linked to a source publication or specialist database. A glossary of terminology is available. Species of particular concern because of being invasive have a peer-reviewed profile on the Global Invasive Species Database (GISD).
In using WRIMS, users need to consider possible species misidentifications in the sources, and that for some species it is uncertain which are their native and introduced ranges. Whether a species is 'invasive' can vary between locations and over time at a particular location.
The WRIMS data resulted from a data collection project within the framework of EMODnet Biology, and was established by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) in cooperation with the IUCN Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG). The WRIMS website is developed and hosted by VLIZ.
WRIMS is part of the consolidated database Aphia, the database behind the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS).
Default
- Date ( Publication)
- 2015-09-04
- Status
- Completed
- Keywords
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marine
- Keywords
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taxonomy
- Keywords
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introduced species
- Keywords
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traits
- Keywords
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global data
- Access constraints
- License
- Use limitation
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CC-BY
- Other constraints
- OnLine resource
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WRiMS Web address
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
- Service Name
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WRiMS webservices
- Service Description
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The World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS) records which marine species in the World Register of Marine species (WoRMS) have been introduced deliberately or accidentally by human activities to geographic areas outside their native range.
As a user or developer you can use the WoRMS webservice to feed your own application with standard WoRMS data, including WRiMS 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
Metadata
- File identifier
- 8f92bc26-fdbb-4a29-b713-56a6c79f8d00 XML
- Metadata language
- en
- Hierarchy level
- Virtual Research Environment
- Metadata Schema Version
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1.0
