Global coordination and standardisation in marine biodiversity through the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and related databases. by Mark J Costello, Philippe Bouchet, Geoff Boxshall, Kristian Fauchald, Dennis Gordon, Bert W Hoeksema, Gary C B Poore, Rob W M van Soest, Sabine Stöhr, T Chad Walter, Bart Vanhoorne, Wim Decock, Ward Appeltans

“…The World Register of Marine Species is an over 90% complete open-access inventory of all marine species names. …”
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A decade of the World Register of Marine Species - General insights and experiences from the Data Management Team: Where are we, what have we learned and how can we continue? by Leen Vandepitte, Bart Vanhoorne, Wim Decock, Sofie Vranken, Thomas Lanssens, Stefanie Dekeyzer, Kevin Verfaille, Tammy Horton, Andreas Kroh, Francisco Hernandez, Jan Mees

“…The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2017. …”
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Marine biodiversity discovery: the metrics of new species descriptions by Philippe Bouchet, Wim Decock, Britt Lonneville, Bart Vanhoorne, Leen Vandepitte

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Benchmarking global biodiversity of decapod crustaceans (Crustacea: Decapoda) by De Grave, S, Decock, W, Dekeyzer, S, Davie, PJF, Fransen, CHJM, Boyko, CB, Poore, GCB, Macpherson, E, Ahyong, ST, Crandall, KA, de Mazancourt, V, Osawa, M, Chan, T-Y, Ng, PKL, Lemaitre, R, van der Meij, SET, Santos, S

“…These figures are derived from a well-curated dataset maintained on the online platform DecaNet, a subsidiary of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Distinct phases are recognised in the discovery process (as measured by species descriptions) corresponding to major historical and geopolitical time periods, with the current rate of species descriptions being more than three times higher than in the Victorian age of global exploration. …”

Updated checklist of the extant Chondrichthyes within the Exclusive Economic Zone of Mexico by Nicolás Roberto Ehemann, Lorem del Valle González-González, Jorge Guillermo Chollet-Villalpando, José De La Cruz-Agüero

“…Information was cross-referenced with digital taxonomic systems such as the Catalog of Fishes of the California Academy of Sciences, the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), and the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). …”
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Biological and ecological traits of marine species by Mark John Costello, Simon Claus, Stefanie Dekeyzer, Leen Vandepitte, Éamonn Ó Tuama, Dan Lear, Harvey Tyler-Walters

“…Ten traits were prioritized for inclusion in the most comprehensive open access database on marine species (World Register of Marine Species), namely taxonomic classification, environment, geography, depth, substratum, mobility, skeleton, diet, body size and reproduction. …”
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Seasonal dynamics of population and age composition of the trematode <i>Gynaecotyla adunca</i> larvae (Linton, 1905) Yamaguti, 1939 in the Black Sea by Yu. V. Belousova, V. L. Lozovsky

“…The mollusks and shrimps were classified in accordance with the World Register of Marine Species. All mollusk and shrimp tissues were examined by the compression method under an MBS-10 binocular microscope. …”
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Decapod Crustacean Records from A Collection of Marine Soft-Bottom Macrofauna of the Italian Waters Supporting the Update of Checklists and Registers of the Mediterranean Basin by Tiziano Bacci, Monica Targusi, Loretta Lattanzi, Veronica Marusso, Benedetta Trabucco, Paolo Tomassetti

“…Data are discussed and compared with the existing literature, also referring to what is reported in the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), with the aim of contributing to the knowledge of the biodiversity of the marine species and supporting the updating of checklists and registers in the Mediterranean Basin.…”
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MarINvaders: A web toolkit of marine species for use in environmental assessments by Francesca Verones, Philip Gjedde, Maximilian Koslowski, John S. Woods, Radek Lonka, Konstantin Stadler

“…Information from the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the Global Invasive Species Database (GISD), and the Nature Conservancy database on marine invasive species (NatCon) was used to identify the names and locations of marine alien species. …”
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Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery by Audrey Looby, Christine Erbe, Santiago Bravo, Kieran Cox, Hailey L. Davies, Lucia Di Iorio, Youenn Jézéquel, Francis Juanes, Charles W. Martin, T. Aran Mooney, Craig Radford, Laura K. Reynolds, Aaron N. Rice, Amalis Riera, Rodney Rountree, Brittnie Spriel, Jenni Stanley, Sarah Vela, Miles J. G. Parsons

“…Abstract A working group from the Global Library of Underwater Biological Sounds effort collaborated with the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) to create an inventory of species confirmed or expected to produce sound underwater. …”
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Chitinozoan nomenclature and databases by Sonia Camina, Olle Hints, Anthony Butcher

“…Databases such as the Encyclopedia of Life, the Catalogue of Life and the World Register of Marine Species lack chitinozoan records but they are collaborative and provide free global access to knowledge. …”
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The World Amphipoda Database: history and progress by Tammy Horton, Claude De Broyer, Denise Bellan-Santini, Charles Oliver Coleman, Denis Copilaș-Ciocianu, Laure Corbari, Mikhail E. Daneliya, Jean-Claude Dauvin, Wim Decock, Lucia Fanini, Cene Fišer, Rebeca Gasca, Michał Grabowski, José M. Guerra-García, Ed A. Hendrycks, Lauren Elizabeth Hughes, Damia Jaume, Young-Hyo Kim, Rachael A. King, Sabrina Lo Brutto, Anne-Nina Lörz, Tomasz Mamos, C. S. Serejo, André R. Senna, Jesser F. Souza-Filho, Anne Helene S. Tandberg, Michael H. Thurston, Wim Vader, Risto Väinölä, Georgina Valls Domedel, Leen Vandepitte, Bart Vanhoorne, Ronald Vonk, Kristine N. White, Wolfgang Zeidler

“…We provide an overview of the World Amphipoda Database (WAD), a global species database that is part of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Launched in 2013, the database contains entries for over 10,500 accepted species names. …”

AlgaeTraits: a trait database for (European) seaweeds by S. Vranken, S. Vranken, M. Robuchon, M. Robuchon, M. Robuchon, S. Dekeyzer, I. Bárbara, I. Bartsch, A. Blanfuné, C.-F. Boudouresque, W. Decock, C. Destombe, B. de Reviers, P. Díaz-Tapia, P. Díaz-Tapia, A. Herbst, R. Julliard, R. Karez, P. Kersen, S. A. Krueger-Hadfield, R. Kuhlenkamp, A. F. Peters, V. Peña, C. Piñeiro-Corbeira, F. Rindi, F. Rousseau, J. Rueness, H. Schubert, K. Sjøtun, M. Sansón, D. Smale, T. Thibaut, M. Valero, L. Vandepitte, B. Vanhoorne, A. Vergés, M. Verlaque, C. Vieira, L. Le Gall, F. Leliaert, O. De Clerck

“…As part of the development of a global trait database of marine species, we collated trait information for European seaweeds and structured the data within the standardised framework of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). We collected 45 175 trait records for 21 biologically and ecologically relevant traits of seaweeds. …”
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