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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
  Gastrotricha
  Chaetognatha
  Ectoprocta
  Mesozoa
  Rotifera
  Gnathostomulida
  Acanthocephala
  Cycliophora
  Cephalorhyncha
  Placozoa
  Bryozoa
    Stenolaemata
    Gymnolaemata
      Cheilostomatida
        Ascophorina
        Inovicellina
        Scrupariina
        Malacostegina
        Neocheilostomatina
          Flustrina
            Flustroidea
            Calloporoidea
            Buguloidea
              Beaniidae
              Bugulidae
                  Bicellariella
                  Bicellarina
                  Bugula
                    Bugula aperta
                    Bugula avicularia
                    Bugula calathus
                    Bugula flabellata
                    Bugula fulva
                    Bugula gautieri
                    Bugula germanae
                    Bugula gracilis
                    Bugula harmsworthi
                    Bugula neritina
                    Bugula plumosa
                    Bugula prenanti
                    Bugula purpurotincta
                    Bugula simplex
                    Bugula spicata
                    Bugula stolonifera
                    Bugula tricuspis
                    Bugula turbinata
                    Bugula fastigiata
                    Bugula robusta
                    Bugula angustiloba
                    Bugula dentata
                    Bugula californica
                    Bugula scaphula
                    Bugula providensis
                    Bugula miniatella
                    Bugula ceylonensis
                    Bugula robustoides
                    Bugula solorensis
                    Bugula paternostrae
                    Bugula capensis
                    Bugula cucullata
                    Bugula alba
                    Bugula biota
                    Bugula bowiei
                    Bugula foliolata
                    Bugula gnoma
                    Bugula guara
                    Bugula ingens
                    Bugula migottoi
                    Bugula rochae
                  Bugulella
                  Corynoporella
                  Dendrobeania
                  Kinetoskias
                  Nordgaardia
                  Uschakovia
                  Cornucopina
                  Farciminellopsis
                  Bugularia
                  Cuneiforma
                  Dimetopia
                  Falsibugulella
                  Halophila
                  Himantozoumella
                  Luguba
                  Semidendrobeania
                  Semikinetoskias
                  Sessibugula
                  Thaminozoum
                  Xenoflustra
              Candidae
              Epistomiidae
              Jubellidae
              Mourellinidae
            Cellarioidea
            Microporoidea
          Ascophora
      Ctenostomatida
  Myxozoa
  Sipunculida
  Pentastomida
  Nemertini
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Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
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