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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
        Sorbeoconcha
        [unassigned] Caenogastropoda
          Cerithioidea
          Heteroglossa
          Cerithiopsoidea
          Triphoroidea
          Epitonioidea
          Eulimoidea
            Aclididae
            Eulimidae
                Acrochalix
                Auriculigerina
                Batheulima
                Bathycrinicola
                Bulimeulima
                Campylorhaphion
                Costaclis
                Crinolamia
                Crinophtheiros
                Curveulima
                Echineulima
                Enteroxenos
                Entocolax
                Entoconcha
                Ersilia
                Eulima
                Eulitoma
                Fuscapex
                Fusceulima
                Haliella
                Halielloides
                Hemiaclis
                Megadenus
                Melanella
                Mucronalia
                Nanobalcis
                Niso
                Oceanida
                Ophieulima
                Ophiolamia
                Parastilbe
                Parvioris
                Pelseneeria
                  Pelseneeria media
                  Pelseneeria minor
                  Pelseneeria profunda
                  Pelseneeria striata
                  Pelseneeria stylifera
                  Pelseneeria sudamericana
                  Pelseneeria hawaiiensis
                  Pelseneeria bountyensis
                  Pelseneeria brunneus
                  Pelseneeria castaneus
                  Pelseneeria minuta
                  Pelseneeria perdepressus
                  Pelseneeria thurstoni
                  Pelseneeria yamamotoi
                  Pelseneeria secunda
                  Pelseneeria secundus
                Pisolamia
                Rectilabrum
                Sabinella
                Sticteulima
                Umbilibalcis
                Vitreolina
                Coenaculum
                Chileutomia
                Palisadia
            Thycidae
          Ampullarioidea
          Campaniloidea
          Ptenoglossa
        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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