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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
    Crustacea
      Remipedia
      Branchiopoda
      Maxillopoda
      Malacostraca
      Ostracoda
        Myodocopa
          Myodocopida
            Myodocopina
              Cypridinoidea
              Cylindroleberidoidea
              Sarsielloidea
                Philomedidae
                Sarsiellidae
                Rutidermatidae
                  Metaschismatinae
                  Rutidermatinae
                    Rutiderma
                        Rutiderma compressa
                        Rutiderma rex
                        Rutiderma arx
                        Rutiderma normani
                        Rutiderma cohenae
                        Rutiderma darbyi
                        Rutiderma gyre
                        Rutiderma kalkei
                        Rutiderma licinum
                        Rutiderma mollitum
                        Rutiderma antiqua
                        Rutiderma apex
                        Rutiderma arcuatile
                        Rutiderma chessi
                        Rutiderma compressum
                        Rutiderma dinochelatum
                        Rutiderma dux
                        Rutiderma exrex
                        Rutiderma ferax
                        Rutiderma flex
                        Rutiderma fuscum
                        Rutiderma gerdhartmanni
                        Rutiderma hartmanni
                        Rutiderma irrostratum
                        Rutiderma judayi
                        Rutiderma leloeuffi
                        Rutiderma lomae
                        Rutiderma mortenseni
                        Rutiderma ovatum
                        Rutiderma pax
                        Rutiderma rostratum
                        Rutiderma rotundum
                        Rutiderma sagax
                        Rutiderma schroederi
                        Rutiderma sterreri
                        Rutiderma tridens
                        Rutiderma tryx
                        Rutiderma vox
                    Scleraner
                    Alternochelata
            Paleomyodocopina
          Halocyprida
        Podocopa
        Palaeocopa
      Pentastomata
    Chelicerata
    Myriapoda
    Hexapoda
  Ctenophora
  Cnidaria
  Sipuncula
  Echiura
  Pogonophora
  Entoprocta
  Tardigrada
  Phoronida
  Brachiopoda
  Echinodermata
  Hemichordata
  Chordata
  Gastrotricha
  Chaetognatha
  Ectoprocta
  Mesozoa
  Rotifera
  Gnathostomulida
  Acanthocephala
  Cycliophora
  Cephalorhyncha
  Placozoa
  Bryozoa
  Myxozoa
  Sipunculida
  Pentastomida
  Nemertini
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Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
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