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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