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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
                Bolteniopsis prenanti
                Bolteniopsis sessilis
                Bolteniopsis pacificus
                Bolteniopsis perlucidus
            Cratostigma
            Culeolus
            Halocynthia
            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
Monera