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GENE-MarineSpecies (WoRMS)

Name: GENE-MarineSpecies (WoRMS)
Brand: Feluda.ai
SKU: GENE-MARINESPECIES
Price: 500 CREDITS
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Give Your AI Access to the World Register of Marine Species

WoRMS is a freely accessible public scientific resource maintained by the global marine biology community. GENE-MarineSpecies uses its open REST API to bring that data into your AI workflows.

500 credits

SKU: GENE-MARINESPECIES

Created: 2026-03-04 00:27:17.782888 +0000 UTC

GENE-MarineSpecies: Give Your AI Access to the World Register of Marine Species

GENE-MarineSpecies connects your AI assistant and Feluda Flows to the World Register of Marine Species — the most comprehensive and authoritative global database of marine organism names, covering over 240,000 accepted species across every major ocean, sea, and brackish habitat on Earth. With this gene installed, your AI can search for species by scientific name, common name, or external identifier, explore complete taxonomic trees, retrieve geographic distributions, cross-reference synonyms, look up vernacular names across dozens of languages, and navigate the full WoRMS classification hierarchy — all without leaving your Feluda application.

Whether you are conducting marine biology research, building conservation data pipelines, auditing species name databases, or simply need your AI to understand and work with taxonomic information, GENE-MarineSpecies gives you immediate, structured access to the world's most trusted marine species authority.

What can I do with GENE-MarineSpecies enabled?

Once the gene is connected, your AI gains the ability to look up any marine species by its scientific name or AphiaID — the unique stable identifier used across the entire WoRMS system — and retrieve full, authoritative taxon records including accepted names, synonyms, rank, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, and genus. It can explore the complete classification chain from the highest taxonomic levels all the way down to a single species. It can retrieve direct children of any taxon, list all known synonyms, look up common names in any of the languages documented in WoRMS, find geographic distribution records, cross-reference species against external databases such as NCBI, IUCN, FishBase, and BOLD, and retrieve trait attribute data. A built-in history database keeps a local record of every lookup your AI makes — so it can track what it has already explored and refer back to prior results at any time.

What tools does GENE-MarineSpecies include?

GENE-MarineSpecies comes with three powerful, production-ready tools. Every tool supports a help call that returns an immediate, plain-language summary of what that tool does, what parameters it accepts, and example uses — so your AI always knows exactly what to do before making a call.

Tool	What it does
Marine Taxa Search	Searches and retrieves taxon records from WoRMS using a wide range of methods: scientific name (with optional wildcard matching), vernacular common name, AphiaID, bulk ID lookup for up to 50 species at once, bulk name lookup for up to 500 names, fuzzy name matching for approximate searches, date-range queries to find recently modified records, name autocomplete for prefix-based suggestions, and cross-referencing by external database identifier. Every result includes the full accepted taxon record with classification, rank, validity status, and marine or extant flags. All lookups are logged to a local history database.
Marine Taxonomy Explorer	Navigates the WoRMS taxonomic tree from any starting point. Retrieves the full hierarchical classification chain from the root of the tree all the way down to a chosen taxon. Lists all direct children of any taxon — optionally filtered to marine fauna only. Fetches the complete list of accepted synonyms for any species. Looks up taxon rank definitions by rank ID or rank name. Returns all taxa registered at a specific rank. Retrieves the expanded Linked-Data record for any taxon ID, which includes additional structured metadata beyond the standard record. Paginated results are supported throughout, and all operations are recorded in the lookup history.
Marine Species Enrichment	Enriches any species record with all available supplementary data held in WoRMS. Retrieves geographic distribution records showing where a species has been documented. Fetches vernacular common names in every language available for a taxon — from English and French to Japanese, Arabic, Welsh, and dozens more. Returns literature sources and citations for any taxon record. Cross-references a species against external taxonomy databases by type (NCBI, IUCN, FishBase, BOLD, algaebase, and others). Retrieves trait attribute values associated with a taxon, with support for inherited attributes up the classification tree. Lets you explore attribute key definitions and look up all species registered against a specific attribute key.

What is the World Register of Marine Species?

The World Register of Marine Species, known as WoRMS, is a global collaborative initiative maintained by a network of over 300 taxonomic editors from research institutions, universities, and marine biology organisations worldwide. It is the international standard reference for marine species names used by conservation bodies, fisheries agencies, oceanographic databases, and research institutions globally. WoRMS is freely and openly accessible to everyone, with no account or authentication required to read its data — which GENE-MarineSpecies uses to bring that access directly into your AI and automation workflows.

No account or credentials required

GENE-MarineSpecies is entirely free to use from the moment it is installed. WoRMS is a publicly open scientific database — all three tools perform read-only access and require no account, no API key, and no credentials of any kind. Install the gene, connect it to your AI, and start working with marine species data immediately.

Settings you can configure

GENE-MarineSpecies exposes several settings from the Feluda Settings page that let you tune how the gene behaves without changing anything in your workflow.

Setting	Description
User Agent	The identifier sent to the WoRMS server with every request. The default value is appropriate for most users and correctly identifies requests as coming from Feluda.
Marine Only	When enabled, all search results are automatically filtered to marine taxa. Disable this setting if you need to include freshwater or terrestrial species in search results.
Extant Only	When enabled, search results are limited to living species and exclude extinct taxa. Disable this if your research includes palaeontological or extinct species records.
Max Tokens In Response	Controls the maximum size of a single tool response before the gene automatically splits it into readable pages. Adjust this based on the context window of the AI model you are using — larger values return more data per call.
Default Page Offset	The starting page offset used for paginated queries. Increase this to skip to a later page of results in searches and taxonomy listings.
Store Raw Responses	When enabled, raw API responses from WoRMS are saved locally in your dataspace for inspection and debugging purposes. Recommended only during development — leave disabled in everyday use to keep your dataspace clean.
History Retention Days	How many days of lookup history to keep in the local database. Older records are removed when the history is pruned. The default keeps 30 days of lookups.

Every tool has built-in help

Every tool in GENE-MarineSpecies has a built-in help case. When your AI calls any tool with the help option, it immediately receives a structured description of what that tool does, all the parameters it accepts, which are required and which are optional, and a summary of every available operation. Your AI never has to guess what a tool needs — it can always ask the tool to explain itself first, and then proceed with exactly the right call.

How GENE-MarineSpecies works inside Feluda Flows

GENE-MarineSpecies becomes significantly more powerful when wired into Feluda Flows. Every tool can be connected into a multi-step automated pipeline, turning what would otherwise be manual lookups into repeatable, scalable workflows.

Species identification pipelines: Build a flow that takes a list of species names — perhaps extracted from field notes, a CSV, or a research document — searches WoRMS for each one, retrieves the accepted AphiaID and full taxon record, and assembles a clean, validated species list with authoritative names and classification.

Taxonomy enrichment: Take any set of AphiaIDs and run them through a flow that fetches the full classification chain, all known synonyms, and geographic distribution records for each one — producing a richly annotated taxonomy dataset ready for further analysis.

Common name translation: Feed a list of scientific names into a flow that looks up all available vernacular names for each species across every documented language, and organises the results into a structured multilingual common-name reference.

External database cross-referencing: Build a flow that takes a set of WoRMS AphiaIDs and retrieves their corresponding identifiers in NCBI, IUCN, FishBase, and BOLD — producing a joined reference table that links WoRMS records to all major external taxonomy systems.

Trait and attribute analysis: Combine the enrichment tool with the taxonomy explorer to build a flow that walks a taxonomic group, retrieves attribute data for every species at a given rank, and aggregates the results into a trait comparison dataset.

Conservation and distribution reporting: Automate a flow that takes a list of species of interest, fetches their geographic distribution records from WoRMS, and produces a structured habitat and range report — useful as background context for conservation planning or marine spatial analysis.

Name validation and synonym resolution: Build a flow that takes a set of potentially outdated or synonymised species names, submits each one to the fuzzy match and name search tools, and returns the currently accepted WoRMS name with its AphiaID — cleaning and validating an entire species list in one automated run.

Real-world use cases

Here are examples of how different users put GENE-MarineSpecies to work.

The marine biologist: A researcher compiling a species checklist for a coral reef survey uses Marine Taxa Search to validate every species name in their dataset against WoRMS, resolve synonyms to their accepted forms, and retrieve AphiaIDs for every entry — turning a hours-long manual validation task into a single automated flow run.

The conservation analyst: An environmental consultant building a species impact assessment uses the Marine Taxonomy Explorer to retrieve the complete classification tree for each species in scope, and the enrichment tool to pull geographic distribution records — creating a structured baseline dataset for the assessment without any manual database work.

The data engineer: A developer building a marine biodiversity application needs to cross-reference their internal species database against WoRMS. A Feluda Flow runs through every record, fetches the canonical WoRMS AphiaID and accepted name, and flags any entries where the stored name differs from the WoRMS authority — producing a clean synchronisation report.

The science communicator: A writer producing content about ocean ecosystems uses Marine Taxa Search with vernacular name lookup to retrieve common names for hundreds of species across multiple languages — building a multilingual species glossary automatically as part of a content generation flow.

The educator: A marine science teacher building a classroom taxonomy exercise uses the Marine Taxonomy Explorer to walk the classification tree from kingdom to species for a set of example organisms, and the enrichment tool to add interesting facts — generating structured lesson material from authoritative, real scientific data.

Handy starting commands

These are ready-to-use prompts you can give your AI once GENE-MarineSpecies is installed. Adapt the wording to your own style — your AI will know exactly what to do.

What you want to do	What to say to your AI	What happens
Search by scientific name	`Look up the WoRMS record for Tursiops truncatus.`	Returns the full authoritative taxon record — AphiaID, accepted name, classification, rank, validity status, and marine flags.
Search by common name	`Find marine species with the common name "blue whale" in WoRMS.`	Searches WoRMS by vernacular name and returns all matching taxon records with their accepted scientific names and AphiaIDs.
Get the taxonomy tree	`Show me the full classification chain for AphiaID 137111.`	Returns the complete hierarchy from the root of the WoRMS tree — Superdomain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species — for the chosen taxon.
List children of a taxon	`List all species directly under the genus Tursiops in WoRMS.`	Returns all direct children of the taxon — the species belonging to that genus — from the WoRMS classification tree.
Find synonyms	`What are all the known synonyms for the bottlenose dolphin in WoRMS?`	Retrieves the full list of recorded synonyms and unaccepted names for the taxon from WoRMS.
Get common names in all languages	`What are the vernacular names for Tursiops truncatus across different languages?`	Returns all documented common names for the species across every language recorded in WoRMS — English, Spanish, French, Russian, Japanese, and many more.
Get geographic distribution	`Where is the great white shark distributed according to WoRMS?`	Retrieves the geographic distribution records for the species, listing all documented regions and ocean areas.
Cross-reference to external databases	`What is the NCBI identifier for Tursiops truncatus in WoRMS?`	Returns the external database identifiers registered for the species — linking WoRMS to NCBI, IUCN, FishBase, BOLD, and other major systems.
Fuzzy name match	`Find the closest WoRMS match for the name "Tursiops trunctus".`	Runs a fuzzy match against the WoRMS name index and returns the best-matching accepted taxon records — useful for catching typos and variant spellings.
Bulk lookup	`Fetch the WoRMS records for AphiaIDs 137111, 137208, and 105792.`	Retrieves full taxon records for all specified AphiaIDs in a single call — efficient for processing multiple species at once.

Fully open scientific data — no restrictions

WoRMS is a freely accessible public scientific resource maintained by the global marine biology community. GENE-MarineSpecies uses its open REST API to bring that data into your AI workflows. There is no authentication, no rate-limiting sign-up, and no third-party account to manage. Everything the gene does goes directly from your Feluda application to the WoRMS server — clean, transparent, and completely open.