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World Register of Marine Species

Dataset homepage

Citation

WoRMS Editorial Board (2024). World Register of Marine Species. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.14284/170 accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-07-11.

Description

An authoritative classification and catalogue of marine names

Taxonomic Coverages

Biota
  1. Biota
    rank: superdomain

Geographic Coverages

World Oceans

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

originator
WoRMS Editorial Board
email: info@marinespecies.org
homepage: https://www.marinespecies.org
metadata author
WoRMS Data Management Team (DMT)
Ostend
8400
BE
email: info@marinespecies.org
homepage: https://www.marinespecies.org
Leen Vandepitte
custodian steward
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
BE
email: leen.vandepitte@vliz.be
owner
WoRMS Steering Committee
email: info@marinespecies.org
Shane Ahyong
editor
Australian Museum; Marine Invertebrates
AU
email: Shane.Ahyong@austmus.gov.au
Christopher Boyko
editor
American Museum of Natural History; Division of Invertebrate Zoology
US
email: cboyko@amnh.org
Nicolas Bailly
editor
Quantitative Aquatics, Inc.
PH
email: n.bailly@q-quatics.org
James Bernot
editor
Smithsonian Institution; National Museum of Natural History; Department of Invertebrate Zoology
US
email: bernotj@si.edu
Rüdiger Bieler
editor
Field Museum of Natural History
US
email: rbieler@fieldmuseum.org
Simone Brandão
editor
Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco; Unidade Acadêmica de Serra Talhada
BR
email: brandao.sn.100@gmail.com
Meg Daly
editor
Ohio State University; Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology
US
email: daly.66@osu.edu
Sammy De Grave
editor
University of Oxford; Museum of Natural History
GB
email: sammy.degrave@oum.ox.ac.uk
Serge Gofas
editor
University of Málaga; Faculty of Sciences; Departamento de Biología Animal
ES
email: sgofas@uma.es
Francisco Hernandez
editor
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
BE
email: francisco.hernandez@vliz.be
Lauren Hughes
editor
Natural History Museum
GB
email: l.hughes@nhm.ac.uk
Thomas A. Neubauer
editor
Bavarian State Collection for Paleontology and Geology
DE
email: neubauer@snsb.de
Gustav Paulay
editor
University of Florida; Florida Museum of Natural History
US
email: paulay@flmnh.ufl.edu
administrative point of contact
World Register of Marine Species
email: info@marinespecies.org
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