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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
            Dicyemennea
              Dicyemennea eledones
              Dicyemennea gracile
              Dicyemennea lameerei
              Dicyemennea abasi
              Dicyemennea abbreviata
              Dicyemennea abelis
              Dicyemennea abreida
              Dicyemennea adscita
              Dicyemennea bathybenthum
              Dicyemennea brevicephala
              Dicyemennea brevicephaloides
              Dicyemennea californica
              Dicyemennea canadensis
              Dicyemennea curta
              Dicyemennea dogieli
              Dicyemennea dorycephalum
              Dicyemennea eltanini
              Dicyemennea filiformis
              Dicyemennea granularis
              Dicyemennea gyrinodes
              Dicyemennea longinucleata
              Dicyemennea mastigoides
              Dicyemennea minabense
              Dicyemennea nouveli
              Dicyemennea ophioides
              Dicyemennea rossiae
              Dicyemennea ryukyuense
              Dicyemennea trochocephalum
              Dicyemennea kaikouriensis
              Dicyemennea rostrata
            Pleodicyema
            Pseudicyema
            Dicyemodeca
            Dodecadicyema
        Kantharellidae
      Heterocyemida
    Orthonectida
  Rotifera
  Gnathostomulida
  Acanthocephala
  Cycliophora
  Cephalorhyncha
  Placozoa
  Bryozoa
  Myxozoa
  Sipunculida
  Pentastomida
  Nemertini
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera