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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
  Chaetognatha
  Ectoprocta
  Mesozoa
    Rhombozoa
      Dicyemida
        Dicyemidae
            Dicyema
              Dicyema macrocephalum
              Dicyema megalocephalum
              Dicyema microcephalum
              Dicyema monodi
              Dicyema moschatum
              Dicyema paradoxum
              Dicyema rondeletiolae
              Dicyema schulzianum
              Dicyema typus
              Dicyema truncatum
              Dicyema whitmani
              Dicyema acciaccatum
              Dicyema acheroni
              Dicyema acuticephalum
              Dicyema aegira
              Dicyema akashiense
              Dicyema apalachiensis
              Dicyema apollyoni
              Dicyema australis
              Dicyema awajiense
              Dicyema balamuthi
              Dicyema balanocephalum
              Dicyema banyulensis
              Dicyema benedeni
              Dicyema bilobum
              Dicyema briarei
              Dicyema caudatum
              Dicyema clavatum
              Dicyema colurum
              Dicyema dolichocephalum
              Dicyema erythrum
              Dicyema hadrum
              Dicyema helocephalum
              Dicyema hypercephalum
              Dicyema irinoense
              Dicyema tosaense
              Dicyema japonicum
              Dicyema koshidai
              Dicyema leiocephalum
              Dicyema lycidoeceum
              Dicyema misakiense
              Dicyema oligomerum
              Dicyema orientale
              Dicyema platycephalum
              Dicyema rhadinum
              Dicyema shorti
              Dicyema sphaerocephalum
              Dicyema sphyrocephalum
              Dicyema sullivani
              Dicyema typoides
              Dicyema knoxi
              Dicyema maorum
              Dicyema robsonellae
            Dicyemennea
            Pleodicyema
            Pseudicyema
            Dicyemodeca
            Dodecadicyema
        Kantharellidae
      Heterocyemida
    Orthonectida
  Rotifera
  Gnathostomulida
  Acanthocephala
  Cycliophora
  Cephalorhyncha
  Placozoa
  Bryozoa
  Myxozoa
  Sipunculida
  Pentastomida
  Nemertini
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Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
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