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 fair marine environment taxonomic classification taxonomy

License

CC-BY-3.0

Links

Homepage

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?

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local unique identifiers in World Register of Marine Species should match this regular expression:
^\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

146421   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from World Register of Marine Species should match this regular expression:
^worms:\d+$

Example CURIE

worms:146421

Contact

Leen Vandepitte   0000-0002-8160-7941

Identifier Space Owner

Flanders Marine Institute, Ostend

Contributor

contributor Meghan Balk   0000-0003-2699-3066   megbalk

Mappings from records in Semantic Farm to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 7 mappings to external registries 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 World Register of Marine Species. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.