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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
  Nematoda
    Adenophorea
      Chromadoria
        Chromadorida
        Monhysterida
        Araeolaimida
        Desmodorida
        Desmoscolecida
          Desmoscolecina
            Desmoscolecoidea
              Desmoscolecidae
                Desmoscolecinae
                Greeffiellinae
                Desmoscolex
                    Desmoscolex adenotrichus
                    Desmoscolex adriaticus
                    Desmoscolex amaurus
                    Desmoscolex americanus
                    Desmoscolex annulatus
                    Desmoscolex balticus
                    Desmoscolex borealis
                    Desmoscolex californiensis
                    Desmoscolex chaetogaster
                    Desmoscolex cosmopolites
                    Desmoscolex falcatus
                    Desmoscolex fennicus
                    Desmoscolex italicus
                    Desmoscolex labiosus
                    Desmoscolex laevis
                    Desmoscolex lanuginosus
                    Desmoscolex longisetosus
                    Desmoscolex minor
                    Desmoscolex minutus
                    Desmoscolex nanellus
                    Desmoscolex petalodes
                    Desmoscolex proboscis
                    Desmoscolex pusillus
                    Desmoscolex tenuiseta
                    Desmoscolex vanoyei
                    Desmoscolex frontalis
                    Desmoscolex gerlachi
                    Desmoscolex latus
                    Desmoscolex max
                    Desmoscolex asetosus
                    Desmoscolex macrophasmata
                    Desmoscolex paralongisetosus
                    Desmoscolex bathyalis
                    Desmoscolex abyssorum
                    Desmoscolex coronatus
                    Desmoscolex decraemerae
                    Desmoscolex membranifer
                    Desmoscolex parabyssorum
                    Desmoscolex roscoffiensis
                    Desmoscolex variabilis
                    Desmoscolex gourbaultae
                    Desmoscolex falklandiae
                    Desmoscolex luteocola
                Quadricoma
                Tricoma
              Meyliidae
        Plectida
      Enoplia
      Adenophorea incertae sedis
      Mermithida
    Secernentea
    Nematoda incertae sedis
  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