Database details : UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms
| Database qualifiers | |
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| Coverage: |
Global |
| Completeness: | Not available |
| Checklist confidence: | Not available |
| 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: | Land J. van der (ed) (†) |
| Taxonomic coverage: | Animalia - Ctenophora, Echiura, Loricifera Animalia - Arthropoda - Pycnogonida Animalia - Chordata - Appendicularia, Ascidiacea, Thaliacea Animalia - Cnidaria - Cubozoa, Scyphozoa, Staurozoa, Anthozoa - Antipatharia, Ceriantharia, Corallimorpharia, Scleractinia, Zoantharia Animalia - Hemichordata - Enteropneusta, Pterobranchia |
| English name of the group: | Many groups of marine invertebrates and chordates |
| Number of species | 6,483 |
| Number of infraspecific taxa | 21 |
| Number of synonyms: | 673 |
| Number of common names: | 592 |
| Total number of names: | 7,748 |
| Abstract: | The UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) is a frozen dataset that was kindly contributed to the Catalogue of Life by Jacob van der Land in previous years. It contains a number of global species databases for exclusively marine invertebrates. As soon as, URMO data migrated in WoRMS, Jacob gave us permission to take these taxa from WoRMS. Now we are in a process of replacing URMO data with updated checklists from WoRMS. |
| Organization: | National Museum of Natural History (Naturalis), Leiden, The Netherlands |
| Website: |
http://www.marinespecies.org/ |