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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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Animalia
  Mollusca
  Porifera
  Platyhelminthes
    Turbellaria
    Monogenea
      Monopisthocotylea
      Polyopisthocotylea
        Mazocraeidea
          Axinidae
          Cemocotylidae
          Diclidophoridae
          Diplozoidae
          Discocotylidae
          Gastrocotylidae
          Hexostomatidae
          Mazocraeidae
          Microcotylidae
            Aspinatrium
            Atriaster
            Atrispinum
            Bivagina
            Metamicrocotyla
            Microcotyle
                Microcotyle acanthurum
                Microcotyle canthari
                Microcotyle caudata
                Microcotyle centrodonti
                Microcotyle cephalus
                Microcotyle chrysophrii
                Microcotyle donavini
                Microcotyle draconis
                Microcotyle erythrini
                Microcotyle fusiformis
                Microcotyle lichiae
                Microcotyle mormyri
                Microcotyle mugilis
                Microcotyle pancerii
                Microcotyle pomatomi
                Microcotyle pontica
                Microcotyle sebastis
                Microcotyle poronoti
                Microcotyle brevis
                Microcotyle constricta
                Microcotyle emmelichthyops
                Microcotyle longirostri
                Microcotyle nemadactylus
                Microcotyle neozealanicus
                Microcotyle archosargi
                Microcotyle arripis
                Microcotyle atriobursata
                Microcotyle bassensis
                Microcotyle centropristis
                Microcotyle eueides
                Microcotyle fistulariae
                Microcotyle hainanensis
                Microcotyle helotes
                Microcotyle hiatulae
                Microcotyle longicauda
                Microcotyle odacis
                Microcotyle otrynteri
                Microcotyle parsillaginae
                Microcotyle pentapodi
                Microcotyle peprili
                Microcotyle pseudomugilis
                Microcotyle pseudopercis
                Microcotyle seriolae
                Microcotyle sillaginae
                Microcotyle stenotomi
                Microcotyle tampicensis
                Microcotyle victoriae
                Microcotyle australiensis
                Microcotyle pyragraphorus
                Microcotyle temnodontis
                Microcotyle caballeroi
                Microcotyle guanabarensis
                Microcotyle macropharynx
                Microcotyle mouwoi
                Microcotyle oceanicum
                Microcotyle priacanthi
            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
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera