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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
          Styelidae
              Alloeocarpa
              Bathyoncus
              Bathystyeloides
              Botrylloides
              Botryllus
              Cnemidocarpa
              Dendrodoa
              Dicarpa
              Distomus
              Eusynstyela
              Kukenthalia
              Pelonaia
              Polyandrocarpa
                Polyandrocarpa zorritensis
                Polyandrocarpa placenta
                Polyandrocarpa violacea
                Polyandrocarpa inhacae
                Polyandrocarpa anguinea
                Polyandrocarpa durbanensis
                Polyandrocarpa tincta
                Polyandrocarpa australiensis
                Polyandrocarpa chendurensis
                Polyandrocarpa colemani
                Polyandrocarpa floridana
                Polyandrocarpa glandulosa
                Polyandrocarpa gravei
                Polyandrocarpa griffithsi
                Polyandrocarpa lapidosa
                Polyandrocarpa misakiensis
                Polyandrocarpa monotestis
                Polyandrocarpa oltgocarpa
                Polyandrocarpa ordinata
                Polyandrocarpa pilella
                Polyandrocarpa polypora
                Polyandrocarpa rollandi
                Polyandrocarpa simulans
                Polyandrocarpa sparsa
                Polyandrocarpa stolonifera
                Polyandrocarpa tarona
                Polyandrocarpa triggiensis
                Polyandrocarpa wastonia
                Polyandrocarpa robusta
                Polyandrocarpa abjornseni
                Polyandrocarpa latericius
                Polyandrocarpa latericuis
                Polyandrocarpa maxima
                Polyandrocarpa nigricans
                Polyandrocarpa sabanillae
                Polyandrocarpa sagamiensis
                Polyandrocarpa transversalis
                Polyandrocarpa colligata
                Polyandrocarpa nivosa
                Polyandrocarpa shimodensis
                Polyandrocarpa tenera
                Polyandrocarpa watsonia
              Polycarpa
              Protostyela
              Psammostyela
              Seriocarpa
              Stolonica
              Styela
              Tibitin
              Minostyela
              Polyzoa
              Metrocarpa
              Dextrocarpa
              Gynandrocarpa
              Metandrocarpa
              Symplegma
              Amphicarpa
              Alcyonium
              Alleocarpa
              Arnbackia
              Asterocarpa
              Azygocarpa
              Berillia
              Botryllocarpa
              Botryorchis
              Chorizocarpa
              Chorizocormus
              Clavellinopsis
              Diandrocarpa
              Dictyostyela
              Glandula
              Goniocarpa
              Goodsiria
              Katatropa
              Michaelsenia
              Molstyela
              Monandrocarpa
              Monoandrocarpa
              Monobotryllus
              Myxobotrus
              Oculinaria
              Okamia
              Oligocarpa
              Pandocia
              Parabotryllus
              Polycyclus
              Protobotryllus
              Psammobotrus
              Psilostyela
              Redikorzevia
              Sarcobotrylloides
              Styeloides
              Styelopsis
              Syncarpa
              Synstyela
              Theodorella
              Thylacium
              Vannamea
              Ypsilocarpa
              Podostyela
          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
Monera