News New taxonomic collaboration resource launched by WoRMS Porifera editors Added on: 2013-05-25 10:00:33 by Costello, Mark SpongeMaps (www.spongemaps.org) is an online, password protected “collaboration-in-the-cloud”, built specifically for those working on the difficult taxonomy of sponges (Porifera), but likely with more global utility across other phyla. ... [Read more] The World Register of Deep Sea Species is pleased to announce the availability of our first iOS app: Deep Sea ID v1.0 Added on: 2013-03-20 12:39:42 by Vandepitte, Leen The app is free to download and works on both iPhone and iPad. It allows offline access to the World Register of Deep-Sea Species and currently stores taxonomic information for over 20,000 deep-sea species, over 350 high-resolution photographs of deep-sea specimens and much more. ... [Read more] Report on the WoRMS editor workshop in Vienna available Added on: 2013-03-12 11:21:06 by Vandepitte, Leen On February 21st, we held our WoRMS editor workshop in Vienna. Although we did not have a massive turnout (11 people in total), we did have a very good workshop, with valuable feedback and discussions. ... [Read more] In memory of Carlo Heip Added on: 2013-02-26 02:16:48 by Costello, Mark One of the world’s great marine biologists has passed away. ... [Read more] PRESS RELEASE: The World Register of Marine Species (2013) PLOS Collections launched! Added on: 2013-01-09 23:09:14 by Costello, Mark This Collection has been created by the editors of the World Register of Marine Species, an open-access online database which holds information on all marine species, and some of their freshwater and terrestrial relatives. The WoRMS database contains species names, synonyms, sources and a range of other information, as described in the collection overview paper (Costello et al. 2012). ... [Read more] [Add] [Older news... ]

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Appeltans W, Bouchet P, Boxshall GA, De Broyer C, de Voogd NJ, Gordon DP, Hoeksema BW, Horton T, Kennedy M, Mees J, Poore GCB, Read G, Stöhr S, Walter TC, Costello MJ. (eds) (2012). World Register of Marine Species. Accessed at http://www.marinespecies.org on 2013-06-19.

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