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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
    Echinozoa
      Echinoidea
        Euechinoidea
          Echinothuroida
          Gnathostomata
          Echinothurioida
            Echinothuridae
            Echinothuriidae
            Phormosomatidae
                Phormosoma
                  Phormosoma luculentum
                  Phormosoma petersii
                  Phormosoma placenta
                  Phormosoma uranus
                  Phormosoma uranus
                  Phormosoma bursarium
                  Phormosoma rigidum
                  Phormosoma verticillatum
                  Phormosoma adenicum
                  Phormosoma alternans
                  Phormosoma asterias
                  Phormosoma atlanticum
                  Phormosoma hispidum
                  Phormosoma hoplacantha
                  Phormosoma indicum
                  Phormosoma koehleri
                  Phormosoma luculenta
                  Phormosoma luculentum
                  Phormosoma panamense
                  Phormosoma panamensis
                  Phormosoma sigsbei
                  Phormosoma tenue
                  Phormosoma tenui
                  Phormosoma tenuis
                  Phormosoma zealandiae
                Paraphormosomatinae
                Hemiphormosoma
            Kamptosomatidae
          Irregularia
          Aulodonta
          Acroechinoidea
          Carinacea
        Perischoechinoidea
        Echinoidea incertae sedis
        Cidaroidea
        Palaeozoic Echinoidea
        Glyphostoma
      Holothuroidea
  Hemichordata
  Chordata
  Gastrotricha
  Chaetognatha
  Ectoprocta
  Mesozoa
  Rotifera
  Gnathostomulida
  Acanthocephala
  Cycliophora
  Cephalorhyncha
  Placozoa
  Bryozoa
  Myxozoa
  Sipunculida
  Pentastomida
  Nemertini
Plantae
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Chromista
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