Title: Mark J' Costello, Ward Appeltans, Philippe Bouchet, Geoff Boxshall, Christian Fauchald, Dennis Gordo
1www.marinespecies.org
Mark J. Costello, Ward Appeltans, Philippe
Bouchet, Geoff Boxshall, Christian Fauchald,
Dennis Gordon, Bert Hoeksema, Gary C.B. Poore,
Rob van Soest, Sabine Stöhr, Chad Walter c/o
Flanders Marine Institute, Belgium
- Asteroidea
- Brachiopoda
- Cetacea
- Copepoda
- Cumacea
- Euphausiacea
- European Register of Marine Species (ERMS)
- Free-living nematodes Nemys
- I OC-UNESCO Taxonomic Reference List of Harmful
Micro Algae (HAB) - Isopoda
- Marine Pisces via FishBase Catalogue of Fishes
- Marine Species Database for Eastern Africa
(MASDEA) - Mysids Nemys
- Nemertina
- North Atlantic Register for Marine Species
(NARMS) - North Sea Benthos Project (NSBP)
- Ophiuroidea
- Phoronida
- Polychaeta
The World Register of Marine Species is a
collaboration between nearly 200 peer-selected
taxonomic experts to publish information on all
marine species online by 2010. A single common
database, called Aphia, hosts a growing number of
Global Species Databases, several Regional
Species Databases, and its first thematic
databases (on harmful algae). Several GSD also
include freshwater and terrestrial species. GSD
on Crinoidea, Holothuroidea, Mollusca, Amphipoda,
Trematoda, Echiura, Chaetognatha, are in
preparation, and closer links with the GSD for
algae, AlgaeBase. The editors are members of the
Society for the Management of Electronic
Biodiversity Data (www.smebd.eu) which appointed
the Flanders Marine Institute (www.VLIZ.be) as
its host. VLIZs nationally funded data centre
provides a team of support staff that provide
24/7 access, archiving and IT support and
permanent funding to maintain the infrastructure
as part of its mission. To date WoRMS contains
140,973 valid species, 207,569 species names
including synonyms, and 10,055 images. SMEBD has
signed data supply agreements with Species 2000
for the Catalogue of Life, and the Encyclopedia
of Life, and supplies content to GenBank and
copies of the databases to 23 Institutions to add
their quality control of species names.
e-Biosphere, 1-3 June 2009, London, UK