The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) provides an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine organisms. It includes synonyms for valid taxonomic names allowing a more complete interpretation of taxonomic literature. The content of WoRMS is administered by taxonomic experts.

Prefix

worms

Keywords

biodiversity environmental science taxonomy

Links

Homepage

Contact

Leen Vandepitte   0000-0002-8160-7941

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in WoRMS-ID for taxa should match this regular expression:
^\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

146421   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from WoRMS-ID for taxa should match this regular expression:
^worms:\d+$

Example CURIE

worms:146421

Publications

2018 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?

Contributors

• contributor Meghan Balk   0000-0003-2699-3066   megbalk

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Semantic Farm and other registries. There are 7 mappings to external registries for this resource with 5 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 146421 is used to demonstrate the providers available for WoRMS-ID for taxa. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.