WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species

WoRMS Taxon match

You can use the WoRMS Taxon Match Tool (credits)This tool uses the following components:
TAXAMATCH fuzzy matching algorithm by Tony Rees
PHP/MySql port of TAXAMATCH by Michael Giddens
Scientific Names Parser by Dmitry Mozzherin to automatically match your species list or taxon list with WoRMS. After matching, the tool will return your file with the AphiaID's, valid names, authorities, WoRMS classification and/or any other output you selected. [View manual]
For performance reasons, the limit is set to 1,500 rows. You can send larger files to info@marinespecies.org and we will return the results to you as soon as possible.

File^*	Allowed filetypes: Plain text [TXT], Comma Separated [CSV] & Excel Sheet [XLS, XLSX]
Row delimiter	First row contains column names
Column delimiter
Match authority
Match upto	Higher taxa only possible if a full classification is given in additional columns
Limit to taxa belonging to

Output	AphiaID LSID TSN ScientificName Authority Accepted name Classification Qualitystatus Taxon status Environment Citation