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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.

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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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Animalia
  Mollusca
  Porifera
  Platyhelminthes
  Nematoda
  Annelida
  Nemertina
  Arthropoda
  Ctenophora
  Cnidaria
    Anthozoa
    Hydrozoa
      Hydroidolina
        Siphonophorae
        Anthoathecata
        Leptothecata
          Conica
            Aglaopheniidae
            Campanulinidae
            Haleciidae
            Lafoeidae
            Laodiceidae
            Lovenellidae
            Phialellidae
            Plumulariidae
              Monotheca
              Nemertesia
                  Nemertesia antennina
                  Nemertesia bellini
                  Nemertesia falcicula
                  Nemertesia irregularis
                  Nemertesia norvegica
                  Nemertesia perrieri
                    Nemertesia perrieri var. antennoides
                  Nemertesia ramosa
                  Nemertesia tetrasticha
                  Nemertesia ventriculiformis
                  Nemertesia americana
                  Nemertesia compacta
                  Nemertesia alternata
                  Nemertesia anonyma
                  Nemertesia belini
                  Nemertesia californica
                  Nemertesia ciliata
                  Nemertesia cylindrica
                  Nemertesia cymodocea
                  Nemertesia dissimilis
                  Nemertesia disticha
                  Nemertesia distnas
                  Nemertesia duseni
                  Nemertesia elongata
                  Nemertesia fascicularis
                  Nemertesia fraseri
                  Nemertesia geniculata
                  Nemertesia gracilis
                  Nemertesia hartlaubi
                  Nemertesia hexasticha
                  Nemertesia inconstans
                  Nemertesia indivisa
                  Nemertesia intermedia
                  Nemertesia japonica
                  Nemertesia mexicana
                  Nemertesia multiramosa
                  Nemertesia pacifica
                  Nemertesia paradoxa
                  Nemertesia parva
                  Nemertesia pinnatifida
                  Nemertesia polygeniculata
                  Nemertesia polynema
                  Nemertesia rugosa
                  Nemertesia septata
                  Nemertesia simplex
                  Nemertesia singularis
                  Nemertesia sinuosa
                  Nemertesia tetraseriata
                  Nemertesia triseriata
                  Nemertesia tropica
                  Nemertesia verticillata
                  Nemertesia vervoorti
                  Nemertesia constricta
                  Nemertesia mutabilis
                  Nemertesia johnstoni
                  Nemertesia inverta
                  Nemertesia erecta
                  Nemertesia pinnata
                  Nemertesia pinnatatifida
                  Nemertesia distans
                  Nemertesia hippuris
                  Nemertesia longicorne
                  Nemertesia nigra
                  Nemertesia irregularis
                  Nemertesia longicorna
                  Nemertesia hancocki
                  Nemertesia anomala
              Plumularia
              Polyplumaria
              Pseudoplumaria
              Antennularia
              Polyplumularia
              Lytocarpus
              Callicarpa
              Cladacanthella
              Dentitheca
              Hippurella
              Sibogella
              Monothecella
              Polynemertesia
              Stechowia
            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
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera