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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
    Adenophorea
      Chromadoria
        Chromadorida
        Monhysterida
        Araeolaimida
        Desmodorida
        Desmoscolecida
        Plectida
          Camacolaimoidea
          Leptolaimoidea
            Leptolaimidae
              Camacolaiminae
              Leptolaiminae
              Leptolaimus
                  Leptolaimus acicula
                  Leptolaimus alatus
                  Leptolaimus ampullaceus
                  Leptolaimus cupulatus
                  Leptolaimus ditlevseni
                  Leptolaimus elegans
                  Leptolaimus leptaleus
                  Leptolaimus limicolus
                  Leptolaimus longiseta
                  Leptolaimus luridus
                  Leptolaimus macer
                  Leptolaimus membranatus
                  Leptolaimus minutus
                  Leptolaimus mixtus
                  Leptolaimus nobilis
                  Leptolaimus papilliger
                  Leptolaimus puccinelliae
                  Leptolaimus pumicosus
                  Leptolaimus scotlandicus
                  Leptolaimus setiger
                  Leptolaimus steineri
                  Leptolaimus tenuis
                  Leptolaimus timmi
                  Leptolaimus trichodes
                  Leptolaimus venustus
                  Leptolaimus vinnulus
                  Leptolaimus pocillus
                  Leptolaimus tritubulatus
              Stephanolaimus
              Rhabdinema
              Dermatolaimus
              Anonchinae
              Paraphanolaimus
              Plectolaimus
      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
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Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
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