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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
        Stolidobranchia
          Molgulidae
          Pyuridae
              Bathypyura
              Boltenia
              Bolteniopsis
              Cratostigma
              Culeolus
              Halocynthia
                Halocynthia papillosa
                Halocynthia pyriformis
                Halocynthia spinosa
                Halocynthia momus
                Halocynthia gangelion
                Halocynthia aurantium
                Halocynthia cactus
                Halocynthia hilgendorfi
                Halocynthia igaboja
                Halocynthia igaguri
                Halocynthia microspinosa
                Halocynthia roretzi
                Halocynthia simaensis
                Halocynthia turboga
                Halocynthia dumosa
                Halocynthia breviramosa
                Halocynthia arabica
                Halocynthia arctica
                Halocynthia carnleyensis
                Halocynthia castaneiformis
                Halocynthia cerebriformis
                Halocynthia chilensis
                Halocynthia comma
                Halocynthia deani
                Halocynthia defectiva
                Halocynthia discoveryi
                Halocynthia echinata
                Halocynthia flynni
                Halocynthia grandis
                Halocynthia haustor
                Halocynthia hispida
                Halocynthia jacatrensis
                Halocynthia johnsoni
                Halocynthia jokoboja
                Halocynthia karasboja
                Halocynthia michaelseni
                Halocynthia mirabilis
                Halocynthia okai
                Halocynthia owstoni
                Halocynthia paessleri
                Halocynthia pallida
                Halocynthia partita
                Halocynthia pulchella
                Halocynthia riiseana
                Halocynthia ritteri
                Halocynthia rubrilabia
                Halocynthia rustica
                Halocynthia sanderi
                Halocynthia setosa
                Halocynthia stubenrauchi
                Halocynthia superba
                Halocynthia transversaria
                Halocynthia tuberculum
                Halocynthia vanhaffeni
                Halocynthia vanhoeffeni
                Halocynthia vanhoffeni
                Halocynthia villosa
                Halocynthia washingtonia
                Halocynthia polycarpa
                Halocynthia jakoboja
                Halocynthia hystrix
              Heterostigma
              Microcosmus
              Pyura
              Bathypera
              Hartmeyeria
              Cynthia
              Herdmania
              Claudeuns
              Ctenicella
              Ctenyura
              Cynthie
              Cynthiopsis
              Forbesella
              Halomolgula
              Hemistyela
              Holocynthia
              Hyalocynthia
              Liouvillea
              Paraculeolus
              Paracynthia
              Podocynthia
              Pyurella
              Pyuropsis
              Tethyum
              Claudenus
          Styelidae
          Hexacrobylidae
      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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