TY  - GEN
A1  - Horton, Tammy
A1  - Gofas, Serge
A1  - Kroh, Andreas
A1  - Poore, Gary C. B.
A1  - Read, Geoffrey
A1  - Rosenberg, Gary
A1  - Stöhr, Sabine
A1  - Bailly, Nicolas
A1  - Bury-Esnault, Nicole
A1  - Brandão, Simone N.
A1  - Costello, Mark J.
A1  - Decock, Wim
A1  - Dekeyzer, Stefanie
A1  - Hernandez, Francisco
A1  - Mees, Jan
A1  - Paulay, Gustav
A1  - Vandepitte, Leen
A1  - Vanhoorne, Bart
A1  - Vranken, Sofie
T1  - Improving nomenclatural consistency: a decade of experience in the World Register of Marine Species
T2  - European journal of taxonomy : 389
N2  - The World Register of Marine species (WoRMS) has been established for a decade. The early history of the database involved compilation of existing global and regional species registers. This aggregation, combined with changes to data types and the changing needs of WoRMS users, has resulted in an evolution of data-entry consistency over time. With the task of aggregating the accepted species names for all marine species approaching completion, our focus has shifted to improving the consistency and quality of data held while keeping pace with the addition of > 2000 new marine species described annually. This paper defines priorities and longer-term aims that promote standardisation within and interoperability among biodiversity databases, provides editors with further information on how to input nomenclatural data in a standardised way and clarifies for users of WoRMS how and why names are represented as they are. We 1) explain the categories of names included; 2) list standard reasons used to explain why a name is considered ‘unaccepted’ or ‘uncertain’; 3) present and explain the more difficult situations encountered; 4) describe categories of sources and notes linked to a taxon; and 5) recommend how type material, type locality and environmental information should be entered.
T3  - European journal of taxonomy  : EJT - 389 
KW  - World Register of Marine Species
KW  - WoRMS
KW  - taxonomic databases
KW  - taxonomy
KW  - nomenclature
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/46238
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-462387
SN  - 2118-9773
PB  - Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
CY  - Paris
ER  -