WoRMS Top Ten Marine Species 2025 Nomination Form

The aim of the WoRMS Top Ten Marine Species is to highlight the fascinating discoveries of the numerous new marine species being made every year, to the wider public. Like every year we plan to release the WoRMS Top Ten Marine Species of 2025 to coincide with World Taxonomist Appreciation Day - March 19th.

Please ensure that the species you nominate is a marine species and is published in 2025 (validly published between 01/01/2025 and 31/12/2025). Both recent and fossil species can be nominated.

If you want to nominate several species, please fill in the nomination form for each species separately.

 

Species information

 

 

Please write the full name and authority of the species.

 

 

Please provide us with information/a story explaining why your species should be chosen. Strong candidates will have a compelling story behind the description, e.g. rare or unusual morphology, an interesting name, importance to society e.g for conservation/ medical importance/ toxic/ dangerous. Please do include links to other media about the species if these are available.

 

Is the name validly published (i.e. does the name meet the specific criteria set by the relevant code of nomenclature?)
Is the name in WoRMS?

If the name is not in WoRMS yet, no action is needed from your side. You can continue with your nomination and we will contact the relevant editor to add the name to WoRMS.

 

Contact information

 

Are you the author of the species?

 

We need the name of the author(s) of the species for press-related purposes. This information will be displayed on the WoRMS Top Ten 2025 webpage (see e.g. previous edition), should your nominated species make it to the Top Ten 2025. If the author(s) are not willing to have their name on the webpage, then please provide the name of a press contact from their institute.

 
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Publication

 

Is the publication open access?
Is the PDF already available in WoRMS?

 

If the PDF of the original description is not available in WoRMS yet, please provide it here, either by uploading the PDF file, or by providing a link.


Unlimited number of files can be uploaded to this field.
512 MB limit.
Allowed types: txt, rtf, pdf, doc, docx, odt, ppt, pptx, odp, xls, xlsx, ods.

 

Images

 

 

Please provide at least one (high resolution) image of the nominated species. If you are not able to upload the image(s), you can provide a link to the image(s).


Unlimited number of files can be uploaded to this field.
512 MB limit.
Allowed types: gif, jpg, jpeg, png, bmp, eps, tif, pict, psd, txt, rtf, html, odf, pdf, doc, docx, ppt, pptx, xls, xlsx, xml, avi, mov, mp3, mp4, ogg, wav, bz2, dmg, gz, jar, rar, sit, svg, tar, zip.

 

In the text box below, please provide the file name + copyright and ownership information for EACH image you provide.

 

 

Other

 

 

Please provide us with any other information that is relevant for your nomination and that does not fit into the fields above.

If you should have any issues filling in this form, please contact info@marinespecies.org.

 

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