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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. ...![](http://www.marinespecies.org/images/news/DOI logo.png)
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! ...![](http://www.marinespecies.org/images/news/ABRS_thumbnail.png)
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. ...![](http://www.marinespecies.org/images/news/1084_sepia-officinalis.jpg)
WoRMS: now truly marine and extant!
Added on: 2019-04-30 11:57:19 by Vandepitte, Leen
A new functionality on the World Register of Marine Species now easily allows the search and display options to be limited to only marine and extant species. ...![](http://www.marinespecies.org/images/news/thumnbail news.png)
WoRMS press release: Ten remarkable new marine species from 2018
Added on: 2019-03-19 10:12:19 by Dekeyzer, Stefanie
This year we have released our list of the top-ten marine species of 2018 to coincide with World Taxonomist Appreciation day - March 19th! ...![](http://www.marinespecies.org/images/news/19th century image.jpg)
The digitized “Challenger Report” now hosted at VLIZ
Added on: 2019-01-28 14:31:19 by Vandepitte, Leen
All the Reports of the Scientific Results of the "Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, Zoology" are again available through www.19thcenturyscience.org, now hosted at the Flanders Marine Institute, home of WoRMS. ...![](http://www.marinespecies.org/images/news/WoRMS_AliveFund.png)
WoRMS and Alive Fundació sign an MoU
Added on: 2018-12-17 09:42:32 by Vandepitte, Leen
Recently, WoRMS and the Alive Fundació signed a collaboration agreement. The Alive Fundació will use the WoRMS taxonomy for its SeaLife Collection, and WoRMS will be given access to their enormous media database, supporting WoRMS in achieving its goal to have an image available for each marine species. ...![](http://www.marinespecies.org/images/news/grouppicture workshop 20180906.jpg)
Nemys/Lifewatch follow-up workshop sets goals to include freshwater, terrestrial & parasitic species
Added on: 2018-10-10 21:38:00 by Campinas Bezerra, Tânia
From 5-7 September 2018 the second Nemys Editors Workshop was held at Ghent University, Belgium ...![](http://www.vliz.be/images/news/inventory-species-earth-WoRMS _15S.jpg)
How to inventory the names of all species on Earth
Added on: 2018-09-12 15:33:04 by Fockedey, Nancy
Marine biologists say they have demonstrated an e-solution to the management of the millions of names of animals and plants on Earth that other biologists could adopt. ...![](http://www.marinespecies.org/images/news/diatom_image.jpg)
DiatomBase Portal launched!
Added on: 2018-06-27 09:18:16 by Vandepitte, Leen
After more than 2 years of preparations, the DiatomBase portal is now officially launched. ...Talitraits: Feeding the Talitridae species in WoRMS with a variety of ecological information
Added on: 2018-06-05 16:25:49 by Vandepitte, Leen
Last week - on May 30 and 31st – 8 thematic experts on Talitridae came together for the first time during a LifeWatch-WoRMS sponsored workshop. The workshop took place at the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research in Crete, where it was organized back-to-back with the 8th International Sandy Beaches Symposium (ISBS). The group focused on identifying relevant traits for the Talitridae, and adding this data through the Amphipoda Species Database. ...WRiMS: reporting introduced species in WoRMS 2.0
Added on: 2018-05-24 12:35:40 by Lanssens, Thomas
On 23 April 2018, a number of editors of the World Register of Introduced Species (WRiMS) started a three day workshop in the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ). These three days were used to evaluate, complete and improve the content of this WoRMS thematic register (TSD). ...Early Career & Achievement Award granted to François Le Coze and Geoff Read
Added on: 2018-05-17 17:37:41 by Vanhoorne, Bart
The 2nd WoRMS Early Career Researchers and 3rd WoRMS Achievement Award were granted respectively to François Le Coze and Geoff Read. Congratulations! ...![](http://www.marinespecies.org/images/news/top-10.jpg)
WoRMS press release: Celebrating a Decade of the World Register of Marine Species
Added on: 2018-04-23 09:01:17 by Vandepitte, Leen
In 2018, to celebrate a decade of WoRMS' existence, it was decided to compile a list of our top marine species, both for 2017 and for the previous decade. ...![](http://www.marinespecies.org/images/news/scleractinia.png)
Scleractinian WoRMS portal launched
Added on: 2018-04-19 16:15:03 by Hoeksema, Bert
The scleractinian corals are now accessible though their own list portal. This World List contains over 1 500 accepted names of extant species and is one of the most complete existing resources for scleractinian taxa ...![](http://www.marinespecies.org/images/news/PLOSONE.jpg)
Celebrating the 10-year anniversary of WoRMS with another publication: general insights and experiences from the DMT
Added on: 2018-04-09 08:45:26 by Vandepitte, Leen
Earlier today, PLoS One published a new Open Access paper in their WoRMS collection, entitled ‘A decade of the World Register of Marine Species – general insights and experiences from the Data Management Team’. The paper was written on occasion of the 10-year celebration of WoRMS, to highlight what WoRMS has been able to accomplish in the last decade and where we wish to go in the future … ...![](http://www.marinespecies.org/images/news/WoRMS_FB_SLB_3.jpg)
WoRMS, FishBase and SeaLifeBase sign a Memorandum of Understanding
Added on: 2018-04-05 10:36:59 by Vandepitte, Leen
This MoU provides the basis for cooperative work between and by FishBase and SeaLifeBase and the World Register of Marine Species. ...![](http://www.marinespecies.org/images/news/award-icon-06.png)
Call for WoRMS Award Nominations
Added on: 2018-03-29 09:57:17 by Vandepitte, Leen
It is time again to nominate editors for the WoRMS Achievement Award and WoRMS Early Career Researchers Award. The deadline for nominations is April 30! ...![](http://www.marinespecies.org/images/news/millibase.png)
So many legs, so little time…
Added on: 2018-03-05 10:28:49 by Vandepitte, Leen
MilliBase: Global Diplopod species catalog launched: Check it out now and come back often! ...![](http://www.marinespecies.org/images/news/DSC_4435-1.jpg)
Expanding MolluscaBase – welcoming freshwater and terrestrial editors during a WoRMS-LifeWatch workshop
Added on: 2018-02-19 10:15:10 by Vandepitte, Leen
In the week of 5-9 February, the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) – host of Aphia, the online platform behind WoRMS and its many subregisters – welcomed Mollusca-experts for 4 days, to expand the content of MolluscaBase with their freshwater and terrestrial representatives and to document species traits. ...[Add]
Currently in WoRMS
Accepted marine species
246 440 (98% checked)
Marine species names, including synonyms
509 788
Species with image
37 399 (73% checked)