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ERMS 2.0: European Register of Marine Species version 2
Citation
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2008). European Register of Marine Species. Http://www.marbef.org/data/erms.php. Accessed on yyyy-mm-dd. [previously: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Emblow, C.; Vanden Berghe, E. (2004). European Register of Marine Species. Available online at http://www.marbef.org/data/erms.php. Consulted on [date]. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/632
Contact: Costello, Mark

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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
A list of species in the European marine waters. more

The European Register of Marine Species (ERMS) was created in 1998 by a project funded under the European Union MAST research programme. It resulted in a species list for European marine waters. This first version has been published as a book (http://www.vliz.be/imis/imis.php?module=dataset&dasid=30).

ERMS is an authoritative taxonomic list of species occurring in the European marine environment, defined as up to the strandline or splash zone above the high tide mark and down to 0.5 (psu, ppt) salinity in estuaries. The project covers species of the kingdoms Animalia, Plantae, Fungi and Protoctista occurring in the marine environment. Marine viruses are not included. The area covered by the project consists of all the continental shelf seas of Europe, from the Canaries and Azores to Greenland and north west Russia, including the Mediterranean shelf, Baltic Seas and deep-sea areas.

The register is actively maintained and daily updated in the framework of the MarBEF EU Network of Excellence by a board of taxonomic editors, which are world experts on the taxonomy of their relevant taxa. The editorial board of ERMS consists of an Executive Commitee and Associate Editors. Each taxonomic group is represented by an Associate editor, responsible for the quality and content of large taxonomic groups. Associate editors can appoint review editors who are responsible for smaller phyla and families. The collective intellectual property rights of the Associate and Review editors of ERMS are managed by SMEBD, the Society for the Management of European Biodiversity Data.

People interested, especially those with expertise in marine taxa, are invited to contact the co-ordinator or other participants to get on the project circulation list. Also relevant ecological information and pictures of taxa, listed in ERMS, are more than welcome. Approved editors of species lists are able to access ERMS online, such that the register will be changing according to need and editorial diligence. Simultaneously, the name of the editor and the revision date for each species or taxon is shown.

ERMS is served from a relational database. The most recent version of the data will always be available through this search interface. At regular intervals, a snapshot of the database will be archived; these archive copies will be kept available through the ERMS web site.

It is anticipated that the Register will become a standard reference (and technological tool) for marine biodiversity training, research and management in Europe.


Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Classification, Species, Taxonomy, ANE, Baltic, ANE, Europe, ANE, Europe, European Continental Shelf, MED, Mediterranean, Animalia, Bacteria, Chromista, Fungi, Monera, Plantae, Protozoa

Geographical coverage
ANE, Baltic [Marine Regions]
ANE, Europe [Marine Regions]
ANE, Europe, European Continental Shelf [Marine Regions]
MED, Mediterranean [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
From 1758 on [In Progress]

Taxonomic coverage
Animalia [WoRMS]
Bacteria [WoRMS]
Chromista [WoRMS]
Fungi [WoRMS]
Monera [WoRMS]
Plantae [WoRMS]
Protozoa [WoRMS]

Parameters
Taxonomy

Contributors
Costello, Mark
Arvanitidis, Christos
Bouchet, Philippe
Boxshall, Geoff
Appeltans, Ward
Vincx, Magda
Vanaverbeke, Jan
Dauvin, Jean-Claude
Segers, Hendrik
Jaume, Damià
van Soest, Rob
Pierrot-Bults, Annelies
Bailly, Nicolas
Dolan, John
Agatha, Sabine
Bartsch, Ilse
Gibson, David
Gofas, Serge
Türkay, Michael
Horton, Tammy
Hoeksema, Bert
van Ofwegen, Leen
Williams, Gary
Bamber, Roger
Jarms, Gerhard
Tendal, Ole Secher
Saiz Salinas, José Ignacio
Tasker, Mark
Kullander, Sven
Petrescu, Iorgu
d'Hondt, Jean-Loup
Angel, Martin
Neuhaus, Birger
Emig, Christian
Mapstone, Gill
Schierwater, Bernd
Sterrer, Wolfgang
Timm, Tarmo
Nielsen, Claus
Vader, Wim
Hummon, William
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), moredatabase developer

Related datasets
Published in:
WoRMS: World Register of Marine Species
Published datasets:
Aphroditacea checklist for ERMS 2.0
Bryozoa checklist for ERMS 2.0
European Bryozoa
Fungi checklist for ERMS 2.0
Gnathostomulida checklist for ERMS 2.0
Halacarid species from European waters (Halacaridae, Acari)
Oligochaeta checklist for ERMS 2.0
Phoronida checklist for ERMS 2.0
Pisces checklist for EMRS 2.0
Rotifera Checklist for ERMS 2.0
Siphonophora checklist for ERMS 2.0
Syllidae checklist for ERMS 2.0
Previous version:
ERMS 1.0: European Register of Marine Species version 1

Project
MarBEF: Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning - EU Network of Excellence

Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Data collection
Metadatarecord created: 2005-11-24
Information last updated: 2013-04-23
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