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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
        Spinulosacea
          Spinulosida
            Echinasteridae
              Cribella
              Cribrella
                  Cribrella abyssalis
                  Cribrella biscayensis
                  Cribrella oculata
                    Cribrella oculata var. cylindrella
                    Cribrella oculata var. murina
                  Cribrella pectinata
                  Cribrella sanguinolenta
                  Cribrella hyadesi
                  Cribrella praestans
                  Cribrella abyssicola
                  Cribrella antarctica
                  Cribrella antillarum
                  Cribrella brasiliensis
                  Cribrella compacta
                  Cribrella cylindrella
                  Cribrella densispina
                  Cribrella eschrichtii
                  Cribrella fallax
                  Cribrella gracilis
                  Cribrella granulosa
                  Cribrella hyadesi
                  Cribrella laevior
                  Cribrella laeviuscula
                  Cribrella laeviuscula
                  Cribrella lukinsii
                  Cribrella murina
                  Cribrella mutans
                  Cribrella nana
                  Cribrella obesa
                  Cribrella oculata
                  Cribrella occulata
                  Cribrella oculata
                  Cribrella ornata
                  Cribrella ornata
                  Cribrella ornata
                  Cribrella pagenstecheri
                  Cribrella pagenstecheri
                  Cribrella parva
                  Cribrella parva
                  Cribrella rosea
                  Cribrella sanguinolenta
                  Cribrella sarsi
                  Cribrella scabrior
                  Cribrella seposita
                  Cribrella sexradiata
                  Cribrella simplex
                  Cribrella spiculifera
                  Cribrella studeri
                  Cribrella sufflata
              Echinaster
              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