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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
    Crustacea
      Remipedia
      Branchiopoda
      Maxillopoda
        Mystacocarida
        Copepoda
        Branchiura
        Tantulocarida
        Thecostraca
          Cirripedia
          Ascothoracida
            Dendrogastrida
              Ascothoracidae
              Dendrogastridae
                  Bifurgaster
                  Dendrogaster
                    Dendrogaster astericola
                    Dendrogaster murmanensis
                    Dendrogaster elegans
                    Dendrogaster antarctica
                    Dendrogaster usarporum
                    Dendrogaster beringensis
                    Dendrogaster arborescens
                    Dendrogaster arbusculus
                    Dendrogaster arctica
                    Dendrogaster argentinensis
                    Dendrogaster asterinae
                    Dendrogaster astropectinis
                    Dendrogaster deformator
                    Dendrogaster dichotoma
                    Dendrogaster dogieli
                    Dendrogaster fisheri
                    Dendrogaster hymenasteri
                    Dendrogaster iwanowi
                    Dendrogaster leptasteriae
                    Dendrogaster ludwigi
                    Dendrogaster okadai
                    Dendrogaster otagoensis
                    Dendrogaster orientalis
                    Dendrogaster psilasteri
                    Dendrogaster pontasteri
                    Dendrogaster punctata
                    Dendrogaster ramosa
                    Dendrogaster repertus
                    Dendrogaster rimskykorsakowi
                    Dendrogaster sagittaria
                    Dendrogaster tasmaniensis
                    Dendrogaster zoroasteri
                  Ulophysema
                  Laocoon
                  Myriocladus
                  Paremedius
            Laurida
        Pentastomida
      Malacostraca
      Ostracoda
      Pentastomata
    Chelicerata
    Myriapoda
    Hexapoda
  Ctenophora
  Cnidaria
  Sipuncula
  Echiura
  Pogonophora
  Entoprocta
  Tardigrada
  Phoronida
  Brachiopoda
  Echinodermata
  Hemichordata
  Chordata
  Gastrotricha
  Chaetognatha
  Ectoprocta
  Mesozoa
  Rotifera
  Gnathostomulida
  Acanthocephala
  Cycliophora
  Cephalorhyncha
  Placozoa
  Bryozoa
  Myxozoa
  Sipunculida
  Pentastomida
  Nemertini
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera