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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
          Proboscoida
            Campanulariidae
                Campanularia
                Clytia
                Gonothyraea
                Hartlaubella
                Laomedea
                Obelia
                  Obelia bidentata
                  Obelia dichotoma
                  Obelia fimbriata
                  Obelia geniculata
                  Obelia longissima
                  Obelia bicuspidata
                  Obelia flabellata
                  Obelia spinulosa
                  Obelia gelantinosa
                  Obelia longa
                  Obelia paulensis
                  Obelia plicata
                  Obelia biscuspidata
                  Obelia lucifera
                  Obelia austrogeorgiae
                  Obelia castellata
                  Obelia irregularis
                  Obelia longicyatha
                  Obelia articulata
                  Obelia plana
                  Obelia commissuralis
                  Obelia biserialis
                  Obelia cheloniae
                  Obelia australis
                  Obelia nodosa
                  Obelia multidentata
                  Obelia corona
                  Obelia alternata
                  Obelia equilateralis
                  Obelia hyalina
                  Obelia obtusidens
                  Obelia delicatula
                  Obelia striata
                  Obelia diversa
                  Obelia spongicola
                Orthopyxis
                Phialidium
                Rhizocaulus
                Tulpa
                Thaumantias
                Campanula
                Verticillina
                Gastroblasta
                Pseudoclytia
                Gastroblastea
                Zelounies
                Multioralis
                Epenthesis
            Bonneviellidae
            Eucopidae
        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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