Database details
| Full name: | UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms |
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| Short name: | URMO |
| Version: | Nov 2008 |
| Release date: | 2008-11-18 |
| Authors/editors: | J. van der Land (ed) |
| Taxonomic coverage: | Animalia - Acoelomorpha, Cephalorhyncha, Chaetognatha, Cnidaria (except order Actiniaria), Ctenophora, Echiura, Gastrotricha, Gnathostomulida, Hemichordata, Mesozoa, Placozoa, Sipuncula Animalia - Platyhelminthes - Cestoda - Amphilinidea, Gyrocotylidea Animalia - Platyhelminthes - Trematoda - Aspidogastrea Animalia - Annelida - Pogonophora Animalia - Arthropoda - Merostomata, Pycnogonida Animalia - Mollusca - Monoplacophora, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda Animalia - Chordata - Appendicularia, Ascidiacea, Thaliacea |
| English name of the group: | Many groups of marine invertebrates and chordates |
| Number of species: | 16,899 |
| Number of infraspecific taxa: | 36 |
| Number of synonyms: | 1,918 |
| Number of common names: | 813 |
| Total number of names: | 19,666 |
| Abstract: | The UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) is an already large and gradually growing dataset that is being edited by Jacob van der Land at the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden and many co-authors. URMO is hosted by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) as a contribution to IODE. The Register contains a number of global species databases for exclusively marine invertebrates and 25 of these are included in this Annual Checklist in 12 phyla and 10 classes. |
| Organization: | National Museum of Natural History (Naturalis), Leiden, The Netherlands |
| Website: |
http://www.marinespecies.org/ |