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A World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) for use in marine and biodiversity data management

A World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) for use in marine and biodiversity data management. www.marinespecies.org. Ward Appeltans, Mark J. Costello, Bart Vanhoorne, Francisco Hernandez, Jan Mees, Edward Vanden Berghe Flanders Marine Institute

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A World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) for use in marine and biodiversity data management

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  1. A World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) for use in marine and biodiversitydata management www.marinespecies.org Ward Appeltans, Mark J. Costello, Bart Vanhoorne, Francisco Hernandez, Jan Mees, Edward Vanden Berghe Flanders Marine Institute University of Auckland; Leigh Marine Laboratory Rutgers University; Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences

  2. Overview Introduction Progress In practice Services Summary & future

  3. Introduction WoRMS builds on experience in developing the European Register of Marine Species WoRMS will provide the first authoritative list of names of all marine and brackish water species world-wide The Aphia database, developed and maintained by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), serves as the IT platform for WoRMS. VLIZ commits itself in long-term hosting and management of WoRMS Currently well over 100 world leading taxonomists are contributing to WoRMS of which many are using Aphia to edit the content of WoRMS WoRMS is the marine contribution to the Species2000 & Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)’ Catalogue of Life, and will collaborate with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) & Encyclopedia of Life (EoL)’s Global Names Architecture. It will serve as the taxonomic backbone of GBIF, EoL and the international Ocean Biogeographic Information System (iOBIS) WoRMS is an “initiative” that is underway

  4. Progress • Statistics (March 2008) • 137 taxonomists • 220,000 taxa • 175,000 species; 119,500 valid species (~50% of all marine species) • 5,200 pictures • 45,457 literature sources • 2,414 specimens • 14,000,000 distribution records in OBIS e.g. all fish #RSDs & GSDs ERMS MASDEA & TISBE

  5. Progress • 14 global species databases • World databases of • Porifera • Proseriata and Kalyptorhynchia - Rhabditophora • Mysids – Nemys • Nematodes – Nemys • Cumacea • Brachiopoda • Phoronida • Pycnogonida • Ophiuroidea • Euphausiacea • Tanaidacea • Isopoda • Pisces • Polychaeta • To come: Amphipoda, Unesco Register of Marine Organisms • 6 regional species databases • European Register of Marine Species (ERMS) • Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS) • North Atlantic Register for Marine Species (NARMS) • Taxonomic Information System for the Belgian Coastal Area (TISBE) • Marine Species Database for Eastern Africa (MASDEA) • North Sea Benthos Project/Survey (NSBP/NSBS) • To come: Arctic Register of Marine Species

  6. One database, many collections All names stored locally in Aphia database

  7. Relational database Aphia database structure (MS SQL)

  8. Data content • Scientific and common names in an hierarchical classification • Nomenclatural status: valid and invalid synonyms • Authority of names • links to full-text references – if available (e.g. original publication, sources of synonymy, etc) • Specimen information, with identification history (incl. type locality, type location, etc…) • Distribution records (incl. depth, abundance, time, source) • Images • Other information: environment, fossil, feeding type, … • Deep links to ITIS, MARLIN etc

  9. Governance • Editorial board • Database Management Team (VLIZ, OBIS, SeaLifeBase) prepares data for bulk upload • After proper identification, taxonomic experts and have online access to remotely manage (add/edit/delete) the entire content of WoRMS • Edit rights are assigned based on a taxon rank in the classification (e.g. phylum, class, order, family of a particular taxon…)

  10. Governance Steering committee & responsibilities through present involvement in other organisations • Mark J. Costello 1,2,3,5,8,16* • Edward Vanden Berghe 1,2,3,5,8 * • Nicolas Bailly 1,3,5,6,12 • Philippe Bouchet 1,3,4,1,13 • Charles Griffiths 2,15 • Michael D. Guiry 1,2,3,5,11 • Ward Appeltans 1,2,3 • Maria (Deng) Palomares 10 • David (Paddy) J. Patterson 1,2,4,8,9 • Gary C. B. Poore 2,14 • Tony Rees 2 • Gary Rosenberg 2,4,13 • Sabine Stöhr 7 • European Register of Marine Species • Ocean Biogeographic Information System • Society for the Management of European Biodiversity Data • International Code of Zoological Nomenclature • Species 2000 • Catalogue of Life • Echinodermata • Encyclopaedia of Life • International Census of Marine Microbes • SeaLifeBase • AlgaeBase • FishBase • Mollusca • Crustacea, Crustacea.net • African species • International Association for Biological Oceanography * WoRMS coordinator/leader

  11. Website Website main portal > 6,000 unique visitors and > 300,000 hits per month (but not yet widely advertised)

  12. Website Website subportals

  13. Website Website search interface e.g. all species in Holothuriidae

  14. Website Website search interface

  15. Database download MS Access database Monthly archives Request forms are available online Password restricted

  16. Webservices : match tool Aphia taxon match tool

  17. Webservices: SOAP requests WoRMS web service • get the AphiaID for your taxon • check the spelling of your taxa • get the authority for your taxa • get the full classification for your taxa • resolve all your invalid names to valid names • match your species list • resolve a common name to a scientific name

  18. End users Examples of end-users • Data systems • GBIF, OBIS, Species 2000, EoL, SeaLifeBase, ZooBank • Government science policy agencies that requested a copy of the database • E.g. European Environment Agency, International Council for Exploration of the Sea, Rijkswaterstaat (Netherlands),Nature Protection Directorate (Italy), L'Inventaire national du Patrimoine naturel (France), IFREMER, Federal Environmental Agency (Germany), Akvaplan-NIVA (Norway), National Cancer Institute, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (Greece), Stazione Zoologica Napoli (Italy), Joint Nature Conservation Committee (UK) [already users of European Register of Marine Species] • Individuals through website • scientists, students, naturalists, ecological consultants, environmental managers

  19. Summary What is WoRMS? Standard nomenclature for marine species data management Taxonomically authoritative, expert-edited, sustainable, register of marine species Involving taxonomic expertise at global, regional and national levelsso as to provide national context Interoperable with existing and emerging species name registers and information systems Hosting gap taxaat Flanders Marine Institute’s Aphia database Added-value name servicesfor biodiversity and marine data centres, organisations and individuals Next step in taxonomic quality control for ocean biodiversity informatics infrastructure for research, resource management, and education Developing a global ocean biodiversity informatics community from taxon experts to end-users First step in having data on all marine species distribution, identification, biology and ecologyonline

  20. Future • Our goal is 200,000 valid species names by 2009, reaching near completion by 2010 (~240-250,000 species). • WoRMS will fill marine gaps in regional and global expert-edited species nomenclatures • Enchance more open-access quality controlled data • Improve online data exploration, visualization, and analysis • WoRMS will harmonise species name registers for data quality control with GBIF & EoL (ECAT, GNA), OBIS, Species 2000 (CoL) etc.

  21. Thanks to our expert editors Editorial board affiliations (on 15 December 2007): Check online: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=editors Smithsonian Institution; National Museum of Natural History – USA Nova Southeastern University; Oceanographic Centre – USA University of Maine; Darling Marine Center – USA California Academy of Sciences – USA Florida Museum of Natural History – USA Center for Systematic Biology and Evolution; Academy of Natural Sciences – USA Museum Victoria – Australia CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research – Australia Institute for Sea Fisheries – Germany Swedish Museum of Natural History – Sweden Zoologisch Museum Amsterdam – Netherlands Natural History Museum – UK Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle – France Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences – Belgium Universiteit Hasselt – Belgium Universiteit Gent – Belgium …

  22. Thanks to our sponsors and supporters Sponsors Flanders Marine Institute MarBEF network of excellence Ocean Biogeographic Information System University of Auckland Global Biodiversity Information Facility Richard Lounsbery Foundation Supporters Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission’s IODE (UNESCO) International Association of Biological Oceanography (a member of IUBS) International Code on Zoological Nomenclature’s ZooBank International Union of Biological Sciences Census of Marine Life International Census of Marine Microbes Encyclopaedia of Life SeaLifeBase, WorldFish FishBase Species 2000, Catalogue of Life

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