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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
    Chaetonotoidea
    Macrodasyoidea
    Macrodasyida
    Chaetonotida
      Multitubulatina
      Paucitubulatina
        Chaetonotidae
          Hemichaetonotus
          Chitonodytes
          Pseudichthydium
          Chaetonotinae
              Aspidiophorus
              Chaetonotus
                Chaetonotus apolemnus
                Chaetonotus balticus
                Chaetonotus decipiens
                Chaetonotus littoralis
                Chaetonotus maximus
                Chaetonotus paradoxus
                Chaetonotus parthenopeius
                Chaetonotus parvus
                Chaetonotus somniculosus
                Chaetonotus variosquamatus
                Chaetonotus marinus
                Chaetonotus jucundus
                Chaetonotus annae
                Chaetonotus bogdanovii
                Chaetonotus fencheli
                Chaetonotus furculatus
                Chaetonotus ontariensis
                Chaetonotus schoepferi
                Chaetonotus testiculophorus
                Chaetonotus (Chaetonotus)
                Chaetonotus (Hystricochaetonotus)
                Chaetonotus (Marinochaetus)
                Chaetonotus (Schizochaetonotus)
                Chaetonotus fenchelae
                Chaetonotus schoepferae
              Halichaetonotus
              Heterolepidoderma
              Ichthydium
              Lepidodermella
              Caudichthydium
        Xenotrichulidae
        Muselliferidae
  Chaetognatha
  Ectoprocta
  Mesozoa
  Rotifera
  Gnathostomulida
  Acanthocephala
  Cycliophora
  Cephalorhyncha
  Placozoa
  Bryozoa
  Myxozoa
  Sipunculida
  Pentastomida
  Nemertini
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