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LifeWatch web-services allow fuzzy matching on the Catalogue of Life
Added on: 2019-09-16 09:30:48 by Dekeyzer, Stefanie
Catalogue of Life (CoL) was already available through the LifeWatch taxon match services, but the service has now been upgraded, allowing a fuzzy match similar to WoRMS! ...
Spanish taxonomy and WoRMS
Added on: 2019-08-08 15:14:32 by Dekeyzer, Stefanie
The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) was adopted as a standard for the Spanish master list of marine invertebrates. ...
WoRMS species counts revised!
Added on: 2019-06-13 16:22:05 by Vandepitte, Leen
Due to incomplete environment information, the counts of marine species in WoRMS were biased by entries lacking a “non-marine” flag. This has now been corrected. ...
Awardees for the 2019 WoRMS Achievement & Early Career Researchers Award known
Added on: 2019-05-22 13:40:07 by Dekeyzer, Stefanie
This year’s winners of the WoRMS Achievement Award and the WoRMS Early Career Researchers Award are Rob van Soest and Barna Páll-Gergely respectively. ...
Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for WoRMS sub-registers
Added on: 2019-05-15 09:26:10 by Dekeyzer, Stefanie
Following the example of WoRMS, a number of its Global, Regional and Thematic Species Databases now also have a DOI assigned to them! ...
WoRMS and the Australian Faunal Directory sign a Memorandum of Understanding
Added on: 2019-05-08 09:31:25 by Dekeyzer, Stefanie
This Memorandum of Understanding provides the basis for a collaboration and data exchange between AFD and WoRMS. ...[Add] [Older news... ]
Currently in WoRMS
Accepted marine species
232 256 (97% checked)
Marine species names, including synonyms
447 085
Species with image
34 074 (54% checked)
