Full name:

UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms

Short name:

URMO

Version:

Oct 2006

Release date:

November 7th, 2006

Authors/editors:

J van der Land (ed)

Taxonomic coverage:

Animalia - many groups of marine invertebrates

Number of species names:

14,744 accepted names; 1,658 synonyms

Number of infraspecies names:

30 accepted names; 5 synonyms

Number of common names:

678

Total number of names:

17,115

Abstract:

The UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) is an already large and gradually growing dataset that is being built up and maintained by Jacob van der Land at the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden. Access to completed data sets will be provided in the near future by the IODE project office at Ostend, Belgium, and Naturalis, Leiden. The register contains a number of global species databases for exclusively marine invertebrates and 20 of these are included in this Annual Checklist in 13 phyla and 7 classes.

Organization:

National Museum of Natural History (Naturalis), Leiden, The Netherlands

Web site:

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