ИСТИНА

NeMys is the online nematode biodiversity database erected in 1998 from the taxonomic filing cabinet of the Marine Biology Research Unit at Ghent University (Belgium). NeMys is now transferred and integrated into the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), hosted at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ). An international crew of nematode taxonomist experts have been appointed as editor community, who engaged themselves in the online management and updating of this database. This includes providing the most authorative list of taxon names of all marine and estuarine species ever published and classified according to the classification of De Ley & Blaxter (2002), with further amendments by Schmidt-Rhaesa (2014). It also includes ecological information and distribution records in a user-friendly surface. As such NeMys has become an indispensable tool for taxonomic and ecological research and can be used for educational purposes all over the world. Registered users will have full access to the PDFs of entire taxonomic papers and to snippets of species descriptions. This easy access to literature is a major advantage because original descriptions are necessary to correctly identify nematodes to species level. The poster aims to demonstrate a basic introduction to NeMys and some of the most recently added or updated features and tools. - *Nematology Research Unit, Department of Biology, Ghent University, Belgium (nic.smol@ugent.be); **Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, RAS, Moscow, Russia (Vadim@ocean.ru)