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You can search for a marine species or other entities that have been tagged in the message content by using the search box on the right hand side of the page.

Browse the WoRMS taxonomy


You can also find a marine species by browsing through the WoRMS taxonomy on the right hand side.

The taxonomy here displays all parent and child nodes of the taxonomy that are tagged as accepted or synonymised. Only species tagged as marine are shown (so you may find some parent nodes with no species within them).

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Click the links to browse through the WoRMS marine species taxonomy.
Animalia
  Mollusca
  Porifera
  Platyhelminthes
  Nematoda
  Annelida
  Nemertina
  Arthropoda
  Ctenophora
  Cnidaria
  Sipuncula
  Echiura
  Pogonophora
  Entoprocta
  Tardigrada
  Phoronida
  Brachiopoda
  Echinodermata
  Hemichordata
  Chordata
    Urochordata
    Cephalochordata
    Vertebrata
    Tunicata
      Ascidiacea
        Aplousobranchia
        Phlebobranchia
          Agnesiidae
          Ascidiidae
          Cionidae
          Corellidae
          Octacnemidae
          Perophoridae
              Ecteinascidia
                Ecteinascidia herdmani
                Ecteinascidia styeloides
                Ecteinascidia turbinata
                Ecteinascidia conclini
                Ecteinascidia thurstoni
                Ecteinascidia moorei
                Ecteinascidia garstangi
                Ecteinascidia conklini
                Ecteinascidia diaphanis
                Ecteinascidia flora
                Ecteinascidia imperfecta
                Ecteinascidia jacerens
                Ecteinascidia krishnani
                Ecteinascidia longiducta
                Ecteinascidia maxima
                Ecteinascidia minuta
                Ecteinascidia modesta
                Ecteinascidia nexa
                Ecteinascidia rubricollis
                Ecteinascidia sluiteri
                Ecteinascidia venui
                Ecteinascidia vitta
                Ecteinascidia psammodes
                Ecteinascidia aequale
                Ecteinascidia albeola
                Ecteinascidia bandaensis
                Ecteinascidia crassa
                Ecteinascidia diligens
                Ecteinascidia euphues
                Ecteinascidia faaopa
                Ecteinascidia formosana
                Ecteinascidia fusca
                Ecteinascidia hataii
                Ecteinascidia hedwigiae
                Ecteinascidia koumaci
                Ecteinascidia multiclathrata
                Ecteinascidia ndouae
                Ecteinascidia remanea
                Ecteinascidia solida
                Ecteinascidia tokaraensis
                Ecteinascidia tortugensis
                Ecteinascidia bombayensis
              Perophora
              Perophoropsis
              Sluiteria
              Tibiania
          Plurellidae
        Stolidobranchia
      Larvacea
      Sorberacea
      Thaliacea
      Appendicularia
  Gastrotricha
  Chaetognatha
  Ectoprocta
  Mesozoa
  Rotifera
  Gnathostomulida
  Acanthocephala
  Cycliophora
  Cephalorhyncha
  Placozoa
  Bryozoa
  Myxozoa
  Sipunculida
  Pentastomida
  Nemertini
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
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