such records can be excluded from a standard search of WoRMS by selecting appropriate options in the online search interface.

History

WoRMS was founded in 2007 and grew out of the European Register of Marine Species and the UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO), which was compiled by Jacob van der Land (and several colleagues) at the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden. It is primarily funded by the European Union and hosted by

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