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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
      Chordodasyidae
      Dactylopodolidae
      Lepidodasyidae
      Macrodasyidae
      Planodasyidae
      Thaumastodermatidae
      Turbanellidae
          Desmodasys
          Dinodasys
          Paraturbanella
          Pseudoturbanella
          Turbanella
            Turbanella ambronensis
            Turbanella bocqueti
            Turbanella cornuta
            Turbanella hyalina
            Turbanella italica
            Turbanella lutheri
            Turbanella multidigitata
            Turbanella otti
            Turbanella petiti
            Turbanella plana
            Turbanella pontica
            Turbanella reducta
            Turbanella remanei
            Turbanella subterrenea
            Turbanella thiophila
            Turbanella varians
            Turbanella veneziana
            Turbanella mustela
            Turbanella aminensis
            Turbanella bengalensis
            Turbanella brusci
            Turbanella corderoi
            Turbanella indica
            Turbanella ocellata
            Turbanella pacifica
            Turbanella palaciosi
            Turbanella wilsoni
            Turbanella cirrata
            Turbanella caledoniensis
            Turbanella mikrogada
            Turbanella scilloniensis
            Turbanella subterranea
          Prostobuccantia
      Xenodasyidae
      Redudasyidae
      Cephalodasyidae
    Chaetonotida
  Chaetognatha
  Ectoprocta
  Mesozoa
  Rotifera
  Gnathostomulida
  Acanthocephala
  Cycliophora
  Cephalorhyncha
  Placozoa
  Bryozoa
  Myxozoa
  Sipunculida
  Pentastomida
  Nemertini
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Chromista
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