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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
    Crinozoa
    Asterozoa
      Asteroidea
        Velatida
        Platyasterida
        Concentricycloidea
        Euclasteroidea
        Forcipulatacea
        Valvatacea
          Notomyotida
            Benthopectinidae
                Benthopecten
                Cheiraster
                Luidiaster
                Pararchaster
                Pectinaster
                Pontaster
                  Pontaster forcipatus
                  Pontaster hebitus
                  Pontaster limbatus
                  Pontaster perplexus
                  Pontaster pristinus
                  Pontaster tenuispinus
                  Pontaster venustus
                  Pontaster coronatus
                  Pontaster cribellum
                  Pontaster echinulatus
                  Pontaster hispidus
                  Pontaster marionis
                  Pontaster mimicus
                  Pontaster mirabilis
                  Pontaster nitida
                  Pontaster oligoporus
                  Pontaster oxyacanthus
                  Pontaster pilosus
                  Pontaster planeta
                  Pontaster platynota
                  Pontaster pulcher
                  Pontaster sepitus
                  Pontaster subtuberculatus
                  Pontaster teres
                  Pontaster trullipes
                Gaussaster
                Acantharchaster
                Acontiaster
                Barbadosaster
                Christopheraster
                Marcellaster
                Myonotus
                Nearchaster
                Pectinaster
                Saraster
          Paxillosida
          Valvatida
        Spinulosacea
      Ophiuroidea
      Stelleroidea
    Echinozoa
  Hemichordata
  Chordata
  Gastrotricha
  Chaetognatha
  Ectoprocta
  Mesozoa
  Rotifera
  Gnathostomulida
  Acanthocephala
  Cycliophora
  Cephalorhyncha
  Placozoa
  Bryozoa
  Myxozoa
  Sipunculida
  Pentastomida
  Nemertini
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