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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
    Turbellaria
    Monogenea
      Monopisthocotylea
      Polyopisthocotylea
        Mazocraeidea
            Axinidae
            Cemocotylidae
            Diclidophoridae
            Diplozoidae
            Discocotylidae
            Gastrocotylidae
            Hexostomatidae
            Mazocraeidae
            Microcotylidae
              Aspinatrium
              Atriaster
              Atrispinum
              Bivagina
              Metamicrocotyla
              Microcotyle
              Polylabris
              Rhinecotyle
              Sciaenocotyle
              Serranicotyle
              Solostamenides
              Sparicotyle
              Diplasiocotyle
              Kahawaia
              Neobivagina
              Tinrovia
              Polylabroides
              Caballeraxine
              Cynoscionicola
              Diplostamenides
              Gammacallum
              Intracotyle
              Lutianicola
              Microcotyloides
              Monomacracanthus
              Pauciconfibula
              Paramicrocotyloides
              Polymicrocotyle
              Polynemicola
              Pseudobivagina
              Tonkinaxine
              Incisaxine
            Octolabeidae
            Plectanocotylidae
            Protomicrocotylidae
            Pyragraphoridae
            Anthocotylidae
            Monaxinoididae
            Allodiscocotylidae
            Allopyragraphoridae
            Anchorophoridae
            Bicotylophoridae
            Bychowskicotylidae
            Heteraxinidae
            Chauhaneidae
            Gotocotylidae
            Heteromicrocotylidae
            Macrovalvitrematidae
            Megamicrocotylidae
            Neothoracocotylidae
            Pseudodiclidophoridae
            Pterinotrematidae
            Thoracocotylidae
    Cestoda
    Catenulida
    Trematoda
  Nematoda
  Annelida
  Nemertina
  Arthropoda
  Ctenophora
  Cnidaria
  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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Chromista
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