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The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS; www.marinespecies.org) is a database that provides an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine organisms. The content of the registry is edited and maintained on an ongoing basis by scientific specialists on each group of organisms. It provides information on the marine global distribution of individual species in specific geographical units, such as North Sea, Baltic Sea, Gulf of Mexico and Mediterranean Sea. Published sources occurrence records are also included. The registry is linked to numerous websites, including the Encyclopedia of Life (www.eol.org), a free online collaborative encyclopedia intended to document all of the 1.3 million species that have been identified and described on Earth to date. It is compiled from existing databases and from contributions by experts and non‐experts throughout the world. It also provides distribution maps and records for individual species.