RAMS: The Register of Antarctic Marine Species
Citation
De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds.) (2026). Register of Antarctic Marine Species. Accessed at https://www.marinespecies.org/rams on yyyy-mm-dd https://doi.org/10.15468/9gsaev
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Danis, Bruno Archived file: Availability:
 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
A register for the marine species of the Southern Ocean more
The objective of RAMS is to compile and manage an authoritative taxonomic list of species occurring in the Antarctic marine environment, for establishing a standard reference for marine biodiversity research, conservation and sustainable management. The taxonomic scope of RAMS covers Antarctic species from the three realms of the Southern Ocean: the sea floor (meio-, macro- and megazoobenthos; micro- and macrophytobenthos), the water column (phytoplankton, zooplankton, nekton) and the sea-ice. A series of preliminary species lists of Antarctic marine invertebrates, mostly for macrobenthic groups, were compiled by Andrew Clarke and Nadine Johnston of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), with funding from the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office and British Antarctic Survey. These lists have been or are being checked and updated by taxonomic experts. RAMS is managed by an Editorial Board comprising an Executive Committee and associate Taxonomic Editors. The RAMS Executive Committee plays an advising role in the development of RAMS and proposes Taxonomic Editors. It links with the SCAR-MarBIN International Steering Committee. To allow RAMS to be as exhaustive and authoritative as possible, the role of the network of Taxonomic Editors is crucial. These Taxonomic Editors are world experts on the taxonomy of their relevant taxa and are in charge of the content and quality control of data for their specific group. Main partners of RAMS are the Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO), The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and The Total Foundation. Other partners involved are Census of Antarctic Marine Life, AWI (Germany) and the DFG (Germany). Scope Themes: Biology, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity Keywords: Marine/Coastal · Brackish water · Antarctica · Data · Marine Genomics · Marine invertebrates · Southern Ocean · Acanthocephala · Annelida · Arthropoda · Bacteria · Brachiopoda · Bryozoa · Cephalorhyncha · Chaetognatha · Chordata · Chromista · Cnidaria · Ctenophora · Echinodermata · Echiura · Hemichordata · Mesozoa · Mollusca · Myxozoa · Nematoda · Nemertea · Plantae · Platyhelminthes · Porifera · Protozoa · Rotifera · Sipuncula · Tardigrada Temporal coverage
From 1758 on [In Progress] Taxonomic coverage
Acanthocephala [WoRMS]
Annelida [WoRMS]
Arthropoda [WoRMS]
Bacteria [WoRMS]
Brachiopoda [WoRMS]
Bryozoa [WoRMS]
Cephalorhyncha [WoRMS]
Chaetognatha [WoRMS]
Chordata [WoRMS]
Chromista [WoRMS]
Cnidaria [WoRMS]
Ctenophora [WoRMS]
Echinodermata [WoRMS]
Echiura [WoRMS]
Hemichordata [WoRMS]
Mesozoa [WoRMS]
Mollusca [WoRMS]
Myxozoa [WoRMS]
Nematoda [WoRMS]
Nemertea [WoRMS]
Plantae [WoRMS]
Platyhelminthes [WoRMS]
Porifera [WoRMS]
Protozoa [WoRMS]
Rotifera [WoRMS]
Sipuncula [WoRMS]
Tardigrada [WoRMS]
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Taxonomy Contributors
De Broyer, Claude, data creator, taxonomic editor Koubbi, Philippe, data creator, taxonomic editor Pakhomov, Evgeny, data creator, taxonomic editor Scott, Fiona, data creator, taxonomic editor Vanden Berghe, Edward, data creator Danis, Bruno, data creator, taxonomic editor Natural Environment Research Council; British Antarctic Survey (BAS), more, data owner
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, database developer
Belgian Science Policy (BELSPO), more, partner
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, more, partner
Allcock, Louise, taxonomic editor Angel, Martin, taxonomic editor Arango, Claudia, taxonomic editor Artois, Tom, taxonomic editor Barnes, David, taxonomic editor Bartsch, Ilse, taxonomic editor Bester, Marthan, taxonomic editor Blachowiak-Samolyk, Kasia, taxonomic editor Bohn, Jens, taxonomic editor Brandão, Simone, taxonomic editor Brandt, Angelika, taxonomic editor David, Bruno, taxonomic editor de Salas, Miguel, taxonomic editor Eleaume, Marc, taxonomic editor Emig, Christian, taxonomic editor Fautin, Daphne, taxonomic editor George, Kai-Horst, taxonomic editor Gillan, David, taxonomic editor Gooday, Andrew, taxonomic editor Jangoux, Michel, taxonomic editor Hopcroft, Russell, taxonomic editor Janussen, Dorte, taxonomic editor Kouwenberg, Juliana, taxonomic editor Kuklinski, Piotr, taxonomic editor Ligowski, Ryszard, taxonomic editor Lindsay, Dhugal, taxonomic editor Linse, Katrin, taxonomic editor Longshaw, Matt, taxonomic editor López-González, Pablo José, taxonomic editor Martin, Patrick, taxonomic editor Mühlenhardt-Siegel, Ute, taxonomic editor Munilla León, Tomas, taxonomic editor Neuhaus, Birger, taxonomic editor Norenburg, Jon, taxonomic editor Ozouf-Costaz, Catherine, taxonomic editor Peña Cantero, Álvaro Luis, taxonomic editor Perrin, William, taxonomic editor Petryashov, Victor, taxonomic editor Piatkowski, Uwe, taxonomic editor Pierrot-Bults, Annelies, taxonomic editor Rocka, Anna, taxonomic editor Saiz Salinas, José Ignacio, taxonomic editor Salvini-Plawen, Luitfried, taxonomic editor Scarabino, Victor, taxonomic editor Schiaparelli, Stefano, taxonomic editor Schrödl, Michael, taxonomic editor Schwabe, Enrico, taxonomic editor Siciński, Jacek, taxonomic editor Siegel, Volker, taxonomic editor Smirnov, Igor, taxonomic editor Thatje, Sven, taxonomic editor Utevsky, Andrei, taxonomic editor Vanreusel, Ann, taxonomic editor Wiencke, Christian, taxonomic editor Woehler, Eric, taxonomic editor Zdzitowiecki, Krzysztof, taxonomic editor Zeidler, Wolfgang, taxonomic editor Błażewicz-Paszkowycz, Magdalena, taxonomic editor
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Dataset information: Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Literature research
Metadatarecord created: 2005-07-12
Information last updated: 2026-02-23
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