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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
      Holothuroidea
        Apodida
        Aspidochirotida
        Elasipodida
        Molpadiida
        Dendrochirotacea
          Dactylochirotida
          Dendrochirotida
            Cucumariidae
            Phyllophoridae
              Havelockia
              Pentamera
                  Pentamera calcigera
                  Pentamera pulcherrima
                  Pentamera dubia
                  Pentamera obscura
                  Pentamera beebei
                  Pentamera pseudocalcigera
                  Pentamera pseudopopulifera
                  Pentamera zacae
                  Pentamera pediparva
                  Pentamera rigida
                  Pentamera chierchiae
                  Pentamera chiloensis
                  Pentamera citrea
                  Pentamera constricta
                  Pentamera lissoplaca
                  Pentamera populifera
                  Pentamera trachyplaca
                  Pentamera charlottae
                  Pentamera montereyensis
              Thyone
              Neopentadactyla
              Orcula
              Phyllophorus
              Pseudocucumis
              Thyone
              Euphyllophorus
              Duasmodactyla
              Hemicrepis
              Pentadactyla
              Anthochirus
              Ekmanothyone
              Phyllophorella
              Pentathyone
              Athyonidium
              Pentactes
            Psolidae
            Heterothyonidae
  Hemichordata
  Chordata
  Gastrotricha
  Chaetognatha
  Ectoprocta
  Mesozoa
  Rotifera
  Gnathostomulida
  Acanthocephala
  Cycliophora
  Cephalorhyncha
  Placozoa
  Bryozoa
  Myxozoa
  Sipunculida
  Pentastomida
  Nemertini
Plantae
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Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
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