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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
      Gnathostomata
        Tetrapoda
        Pisces
          Elasmobranchii
          Actinopterygii
          Holocephali
            Chimaeriformes
              Chimaeridae
                  Chimaera
                  Hydrolagus
                    Hydrolagus affinis
                    Hydrolagus mirabilis
                    Hydrolagus pallidus
                    Hydrolagus africanus
                    Hydrolagus alberti
                    Hydrolagus alphus
                    Hydrolagus barbouri
                    Hydrolagus bemisi
                    Hydrolagus colliei
                    Hydrolagus deani
                    Hydrolagus eidolon
                    Hydrolagus lemures
                    Hydrolagus lusitanicus
                    Hydrolagus macrophthalmus
                    Hydrolagus matallanasi
                    Hydrolagus mccoskeri
                    Hydrolagus mitsukurii
                    Hydrolagus novaezealandiae
                    Hydrolagus ogilbyi
                    Hydrolagus purpurescens
                    Hydrolagus trolli
                    Hydrolagus waitei
                    Hydrolagus homonycteris
                    Hydrolagus marmoratus
                    Hydrolagus melanophasma
                  Phasmichthys
                  Psychichthys
                  Chimaeridae
              Rhinochimaeridae
      Agnatha
    Tunicata
  Gastrotricha
  Chaetognatha
  Ectoprocta
  Mesozoa
  Rotifera
  Gnathostomulida
  Acanthocephala
  Cycliophora
  Cephalorhyncha
  Placozoa
  Bryozoa
  Myxozoa
  Sipunculida
  Pentastomida
  Nemertini
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Protozoa
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Chromista
Archaea
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Monera