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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
    Polyplacophora
    Gastropoda
    Scaphopoda
    Bivalvia
    Monoplacophora
    Solenogastres
    Cephalopoda
      Coleoidea
        Decapodiformes
          Sepiida
          Teuthida
          Myopsida
            Loliginidae
                Alloteuthis
                Loligo
                  Loligo forbesi
                  Loligo vulgaris
                  Loligo sagittata
                  Loligo fusus
                  Loligo africana
                  Loligo aspera
                  Loligo beka
                  Loligo bleekeri
                  Loligo brasiliensis
                  Loligo chinensis
                  Loligo gahi
                  Loligo japonica
                  Loligo ocula
                  Loligo opalescens
                  Loligo patagonica
                  Loligo pealei
                  Loligo pickfordae
                  Loligo roperi
                  Loligo sanpaulensis
                  Loligo sibogae
                  Loligo singhalensis
                  Loligo spectrum
                  Loligo subulata
                  Loligo surinamensis
                  Loligo uyii
                  Loligo kobiensis
                  Loligo arabica
                  Loligo budo
                  Loligo vossi
                  Loligo forbesii
                  Loligo media
                Loliolopsis
                Loliolus
                Pickfordiateuthis
                Uroteuthis
            Australiteuthidae
          Oegopsida
          Sepiolida
          Spirulida
          [unassigned] Decapodiformes
        Octopodiformes
    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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Chromista
Archaea
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