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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
  Annelida
  Nemertina
  Arthropoda
  Ctenophora
  Cnidaria
  Sipuncula
  Echiura
  Pogonophora
  Entoprocta
  Tardigrada
  Phoronida
  Brachiopoda
  Echinodermata
    Crinozoa
    Asterozoa
      Asteroidea
        Velatida
        Platyasterida
        Concentricycloidea
        Euclasteroidea
        Forcipulatacea
        Valvatacea
        Spinulosacea
          Spinulosida
            Echinasteridae
              Cribella
              Cribrella
              Echinaster
                  Echinaster (Echinaster)
                    Echinaster (Echinaster) sepositus
                    Echinaster (Echinaster) modestus
                    Echinaster (Echinaster) reticulatus
                  Echinaster eschrichti
                  Echinaster oculatus
                  Echinaster sarsi
                  Echinaster scrobiculatus
                  Echinaster (Othilia)
                  Echinaster sanguinolentus
                  Echinaster purpureus
                  Echinaster ornatus
                  Echinaster callosus
                  Echinaster sladeni
                  Echinaster smithi
                  Echinaster sepositus
                  Echinaster colemani
                  Echinaster farquhari
                  Echinaster luzonicus
                  Echinaster cylindricus
                  Echinaster glomeratus
                  Echinaster modestus
                  Echinaster panamensis
                  Echinaster parvispinus
                  Echinaster reticulatus
                  Echinaster stereosomus
                  Echinaster superbus
                  Echinaster varicolor
                  Echinaster vestitus
                  Echinaster vestitus
                  Echinaster solaris
                  Echinaster acanthodes
                  Echinaster arcystatus
                  Echinaster crassus
                  Echinaster cribella
                  Echinaster decanus
                  Echinaster deplanatus
                  Echinaster diffidens
                  Echinaster echinulatus
                  Echinaster ellisi
                  Echinaster eridanella
                  Echinaster eridanella
                  Echinaster eschrichti
                  Echinaster fallax
                  Echinaster fallax
                  Echinaster hirsuta
                  Echinaster heteractis
                  Echinaster madseni
                  Echinaster gracilis
                  Echinaster clouei
                  Echinaster modestus
                  Echinaster multipapillatus
                  Echinaster pterasteroides
                  Echinaster purpureus
                  Echinaster rigidus
                  Echinaster sagenus
                  Echinaster sanguinolentus
                  Echinaster sepositus
                  Echinaster smilax
                  Echinaster spinulifer
                  Echinaster spinulifer
              Henricia
              Magdalenaster
              Rhopia
              Cyllaster
              Spinohenricia
              Thyraster
              Verrillaster
              Linckia
              Rhopiella
              Odontohenricia
              Metrodira
              Plectaster
              Dictyaster
              Henricides
              Valvasterinae
              Acanthasterinae
              Mithrodinae
              Mithrodinae
              Scaphaster
              Echinaster
              Aleutihenricia
            Metrodiridae
            Mithrodiae
            Mithrodidae
      Ophiuroidea
      Stelleroidea
    Echinozoa
  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