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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
    Calcarea
    Hexactinellida
    Homoscleromorpha
    Porifera incertae sedis
    Demospongiae
      Ceractinomorpha
      Tetractinomorpha
      Dendroceratida
      Dictyoceratida
        Dysideidae
            Pleraplysilla
            Dysidea
            Spongelia
              Spongelia avara
              Spongelia elastica
              Spongelia incrustans
              Spongelia pallescens
              Spongelia farlovii
              Spongelia rectilinea
              Spongelia velata
              Spongelia herbacea
              Spongelia delicatula
              Spongelia australis
              Spongelia spinifera
              Spongelia stellidermatum
              Spongelia cactos
              Spongelia incerta
              Spongelia repens
              Spongelia aedificanda
              Spongelia chalinoides
              Spongelia chilensis
              Spongelia dakini
              Spongelia distans
              Spongelia elastica
              Spongelia crassa
              Spongelia incrustata
              Spongelia laxa
              Spongelia oculata
              Spongelia spinosa
              Spongelia anceps
              Spongelia cacos
              Spongelia cana
              Spongelia dubia
              Spongelia elegans
              Spongelia enormis
              Spongelia gracilis
              Spongelia horrens
              Spongelia ligneana
              Spongelia sagum
              Spongelia farlovi
              Spongelia fragilis
              Spongelia palmata
              Spongelia putrescens
              Spongelia tupha
              Spongelia cinerea
              Spongelia hirciniformis
              Spongelia kirkii
            Collospongelia
            Citronia
            Euryspongia
            Lamellodysidea
            Paraspongia
            Aulena
            Duseideia
            Haastia
            Halmopsis
        Irciniidae
        Spongiidae
        Thorectidae
        Verticillitidae
      Halichondrida
      Halisarcida
      Haplosclerida
      Poecilosclerida
      Verongida
      Astrophorida
      Chondrosida
      Hadromerida
      'Lithistida'
      Spirophorida
      Petrosida
      Nepheliospongida
      Choristida
      Axinellida
      Agelasida
      Demospongiae incertae sedis
      Verticillitida
      Keratosa
      Myxospongiae
      Gummineae
      Verongimorpha
      Tetractinellida
      Democlavia
    Sclerospongiae
    Hyalospongiae
    Calcispongiae
  Platyhelminthes
  Nematoda
  Annelida
  Nemertina
  Arthropoda
  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
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera