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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.

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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
    Polyplacophora
    Gastropoda
      Prosobranchia
      Heterobranchia
      Cocculiniformia
      Neritimorpha
      Vetigastropoda
      Apogastropoda
      Caenogastropoda
        Neogastropoda
          Muricoidea
          Cancellarioidea
            Cancellariidae
                Axelella
                Brocchinia
                Cancellaria
                  Cancellaria coronata
                  Cancellaria lamellosa
                  Cancellaria lyrata
                  Cancellaria costifera
                  Cancellaria fulva
                  Cancellaria gigantea
                  Cancellaria richardpetiti
                  Cancellaria rosewateri
                  Cancellaria africana
                  Cancellaria agalma
                  Cancellaria albida
                  Cancellaria aqualica
                  Cancellaria boucheti
                  Cancellaria candida
                  Cancellaria citharella
                  Cancellaria coctilis
                  Cancellaria cooperii
                  Cancellaria corrosa
                  Cancellaria corrugata
                  Cancellaria crawfordiana
                  Cancellaria cremata
                  Cancellaria crenulata
                  Cancellaria darwini
                  Cancellaria decussata
                  Cancellaria euetrios
                  Cancellaria euthymei
                  Cancellaria fusca
                  Cancellaria gemmulata
                  Cancellaria ghiorum
                  Cancellaria grayi
                  Cancellaria haemastoma
                  Cancellaria indentata
                  Cancellaria io
                  Cancellaria jayana
                  Cancellaria littoriniformis
                  Cancellaria luscinia
                  Cancellaria mangelioides
                  Cancellaria melanostoma
                  Cancellaria nassa
                  Cancellaria nassiformis
                  Cancellaria obesa
                  Cancellaria obtusa
                  Cancellaria ovata
                  Cancellaria parva
                  Cancellaria patricia
                  Cancellaria peruviana
                  Cancellaria plebeja
                  Cancellaria producta
                  Cancellaria quasilla
                  Cancellaria semperiana
                  Cancellaria senticosa
                  Cancellaria souverbiei
                  Cancellaria thomasiana
                  Cancellaria turrita
                  Cancellaria umbilicata
                  Cancellaria uniangulata
                  Cancellaria urceolata
                  Cancellaria ventricosa
                  Cancellaria wilmeri
                  Cancellaria abnormis
                  Cancellaria alba
                  Cancellaria alba
                  Cancellaria ampullacera
                  Cancellaria azumai
                  Cancellaria bocageana
                  Cancellaria ciliata
                  Cancellaria ciliata
                  Cancellaria ciliata
                  Cancellaria conradiana
                  Cancellaria gracilis
                  Cancellaria major
                  Cancellaria rosea
                  Cancellaria typica
                  Cancellaria unifasciata
                  Cancellaria minima
                Iphinopsis
                Solatia
                Narona
                Scalptia
                Cancellariinae
                Admetinae
                Plesiotritoninae
                Pseudobabylonella
          Conoidea
          Buccinoidea
          Volutoidea
          Olivoidea
          Pseudolivoidea
        Sorbeoconcha
        [unassigned] Caenogastropoda
        Littorinimorpha
        Stenoglossa
        Hypsogastropoda
      Patellogastropoda
    Scaphopoda
    Bivalvia
    Monoplacophora
    Solenogastres
    Cephalopoda
    Placophora
    Aculifera
    Conchifera
    Pelecypoda
    Caudofoveata
    Lamellibranchiata
    Conchifera
  Porifera
  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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Protozoa
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Chromista
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