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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
    Calcarea
    Hexactinellida
    Homoscleromorpha
      Homosclerophorida
        Plakinidae
            Corticium
            Diactinolopha
            Placinolopha
            Plakina
              Plakina brachylopha
              Plakina dilopha
              Plakina monolopha
              Plakina trilopha
              Plakina australis
              Plakina bioxea
              Plakina bowerbanki
              Plakina corticioides
              Plakina corticolopha
              Plakina crypta
              Plakina elisa
              Plakina endoumensis
              Plakina fragilis
              Plakina jamaicensis
              Plakina jani
              Plakina microlobata
              Plakina pacifica
              Plakina reducta
              Plakina tetralopha
              Plakina tetralophoides
              Plakina topsenti
              Plakina versatilis
              Plakina weinbergi
              Plakina tetralopha
              Plakina acantholopha
              Plakina atka
              Plakina tanaga
            Plakinastrella
            Plakortis
            Achinoe
            Dercitopsis
            Roosa
            Placortis
            Plakoosa
            Placina
            Plakostrella
            Tetralophosa
        Oscarellidae
        Placinidae
        Corticiidae
    Porifera incertae sedis
    Demospongiae
    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
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Chromista
Archaea
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Monera