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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
    Anthozoa
    Hydrozoa
      Hydroidolina
        Siphonophorae
        Anthoathecata
        Leptothecata
          Conica
            Aglaopheniidae
                Aglaophenia
                Cladocarpus
                Gymnangium
                Lytocarpia
                  Lytocarpia distans
                  Lytocarpia myriophyllum
                  Lytocarpia phyteuma
                  Lytocarpia acuta
                  Lytocarpia alata
                  Lytocarpia angulosa
                  Lytocarpia armata
                  Lytocarpia bathyalis
                  Lytocarpia benedicti
                  Lytocarpia bispinosa
                  Lytocarpia brevirostris
                  Lytocarpia calycifera
                  Lytocarpia canepa
                  Lytocarpia chiltoni
                  Lytocarpia contorta
                  Lytocarpia crucialis
                  Lytocarpia delicatula
                  Lytocarpia epizoica
                  Lytocarpia flexuosa
                  Lytocarpia formosa
                  Lytocarpia furcata
                  Lytocarpia howensis
                  Lytocarpia incisa
                  Lytocarpia lepida
                  Lytocarpia megalocarpa
                  Lytocarpia nicpenny
                  Lytocarpia niger
                  Lytocarpia normani
                  Lytocarpia orientalis
                  Lytocarpia perarmata
                  Lytocarpia rigida
                  Lytocarpia similis
                  Lytocarpia spiralis
                  Lytocarpia striata
                  Lytocarpia subdichotoma
                  Lytocarpia tenuissima
                  Lytocarpia tridentata
                  Lytocarpia vitiensis
                  Lytocarpia vulgaris
                  Lytocarpia hystrix
                  Lytocarpia flexuosus
                  Lytocarpia vervoorti
                Macrorhynchia
                Nematocarpus
                Streptocaulus
                Nematophorus
                Thecocarpus
                Aglophenia
                Theocarpus
                Cladocarpoides
                Diplocheilus
                Monoserius
                Wanglaophenia
                Carpocladus
                Aglaophenopsis
                Dinotheca
                Halicornaria
            Campanulinidae
            Haleciidae
            Lafoeidae
            Laodiceidae
            Lovenellidae
            Phialellidae
            Plumulariidae
            Sertulariidae
            Aequoreidae
            Mitrocomidae
            Eirenidae
            Eucheilotidae
            Tiarannidae
            Barcinididae
            Blackfordiidae
            Dipleurosomatidae
            Halopterididae
            Kirchenpaueriidae
            Malagazziidae
            Melicertidae
            Orchistomidae
            Tiaropsidae
            Syntheciidae
            Hebellidae
            Teclaiidae
            Cirrholoveniidae
            Clathrozoidae
            Lineolariidae
            Octocannoididae
            Sugiuridae
          Proboscoida
        Laingiomedusae
        Anthomedusae
        Leptomedusae
        Gymnoblastea
        Athecata
        Thecata
        Siphonophora
      Trachylinae
      Hydroida
      Leptolinae
    Cnidaria incertae sedis
    Cubozoa
    Scyphozoa
    Staurozoa
  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
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