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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
          Irregularia
          Aulodonta
          Acroechinoidea
            Pedinoida
              Pedinidae
                  Caenopedina
                    Caenopedina cubensis
                    Caenopedina capensis
                    Caenopedina novaezealandiae
                    Caenopedina alanbakeri
                    Caenopedina annulata
                    Caenopedina depressa
                    Caenopedina diomedeae
                    Caenopedina hawaiiensis
                    Caenopedina porphyrogigas
                    Caenopedina superba
                    Caenopedina indica
                    Caenopedina mirabilis
                    Caenopedina pulchella
                    Caenopedina otagoensis
                  Orthocidaris
                  Hemipedina
                  Coenopedina
                  Diademopsis
                  Echinopedina
                  Leiopedina
                  Leptocidaris
                  Palaeopedina
                  Pedina
                  Phymopedina
                  Pseudopedina
                  Thieulinipedina
                  Orthocidarinae
            Diadematacea
            Aspidodiadematoida
            Diadematoida
            Micropygoida
            Pelanechinidae
            Latistellata
          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
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Chromista
Archaea
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