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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
  Rotifera
  Gnathostomulida
  Acanthocephala
  Cycliophora
  Cephalorhyncha
  Placozoa
  Bryozoa
  Myxozoa
    Myxosporea
      Bivalvulida
        Sphaeromyxina
        Variisporina
          Alatasporidae
          Auerbachiidae
          Ceratomyxidae
              Ceratomyxa
              Leptotheca
                Leptotheca adeli
                Leptotheca agilis
                Leptotheca brevis
                Leptotheca chromis
                Leptotheca coelorhyncha
                Leptotheca coris
                Leptotheca elongata
                Leptotheca hepseti
                Leptotheca informis
                Leptotheca kovaljovae
                Leptotheca longipes
                Leptotheca macroformis
                Leptotheca macrospora
                Leptotheca polymorpha
                Leptotheca quadritaenia
                Leptotheca renicola
                Leptotheca scombri
                Leptotheca simplex
                Leptotheca vikrami
                Leptotheca ampla
                Leptotheca acanthopagri
                Leptotheca nebulifera
                Leptotheca annulata
                Leptotheca minima
                Leptotheca pinguis
                Leptotheca subelegans
                Leptotheca abbreviata
                Leptotheca amatea
                Leptotheca apogoni
                Leptotheca armatura
                Leptotheca asymmetrica
                Leptotheca beveridgei
                Leptotheca brevoides
                Leptotheca compressa
                Leptotheca constricta
                Leptotheca elegans
                Leptotheca etrumuci
                Leptotheca faba
                Leptotheca fisheri
                Leptotheca fugu
                Leptotheca fusiformis
                Leptotheca galeata
                Leptotheca glomerosa
                Leptotheca inconstans
                Leptotheca koreana
                Leptotheca latesi
                Leptotheca limandae
                Leptotheca lobosa
                Leptotheca lutjani
                Leptotheca macronesi
                Leptotheca minuta
                Leptotheca mylionis
                Leptotheca opisthocornata
                Leptotheca ovale
                Leptotheca pegusae
                Leptotheca perlata
                Leptotheca scissura
                Leptotheca sebasta
                Leptotheca sebastici
                Leptotheca sparidarum
                Leptotheca sphaerula
              Ellipsomyxa
              Meglitschia
          Chloromyxidae
          Myxidiidae
          Ortholineidae
          Parvicapsulidae
          Sinuolineidae
          Sphaerosporidae
          Fabesporidae
        Platysporina
      Multivalvulida
  Sipunculida
  Pentastomida
  Nemertini
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera