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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
      Halichondrida
      Halisarcida
      Haplosclerida
      Poecilosclerida
        Microcionina
        Mycalina
          Cladorhizidae
          Desmacellidae
            Biemna
            Desmacella
                Desmacella annexa
                Desmacella campechiana
                Desmacella corrugata
                Desmacella grimaldi
                Desmacella groenlandica
                Desmacella hamifera
                Desmacella informis
                Desmacella inornata
                Desmacella meliorata
                Desmacella peachi
                Desmacella porosa
                Desmacella pumicea
                Desmacella pumilio
                Desmacella rosea
                Desmacella suberea
                Desmacella vagabunda
                Desmacella variantia
                Desmacella velutata
                Desmacella alba
                Desmacella ambigua
                Desmacella arenifibrosa
                Desmacella democratica
                Desmacella dendyi
                Desmacella digitata
                Desmacella grimaldii
                Desmacella ithystela
                Desmacella jania
                Desmacella lampra
                Desmacella microsigma
                Desmacella microstrongyla
                Desmacella polysigmata
                Desmacella suberitoides
                Desmacella topsenti
                Desmacella toxophora
                Desmacella vestibularis
                Desmacella vicina
                Desmacella infundibuliformis
                Desmacella fortis
                Desmacella fistulosa
                Desmacella fragilis
                Desmacella trirhaphis
                Desmacella pennata
                Desmacella vulgaris
                Desmacella schmidti
                Desmacella peachii
                Desmacella tubulata
                Desmacella humilis
                Desmacella capillifera
                Desmacella aberrans
                Desmacella austini
                Desmacella tylostrongyla
                Desmacella vestibularis
                Desmacella johnsoni
            Desmacodes
            Dragmatella
            Tylodesma
            Microtylostylifer
            Neofibularia
            Sigmaxinella
            Allantophora
            Biemma
            Sigmotylotella
            Fibularia
            Sigmatoxella
            Toxemna
            Toxemma
          Guitarridae
          Hamacanthidae
          Isodictyidae
          Mycalidae
          Biemnidae
          Esperiopsidae
          Merliidae
          Podospongiidae
          Esperiadae
          Esperellinae
          Arenochalininae
        Myxillina
        Latrunculina
      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
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Chromista
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