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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
      Protobranchia
      Pteriomorphia
      Heterodonta
        Archiheterodonta
        Euheterodonta
          Veneroida
          Myoida
          Anomalodesmata
          [unassigned] Euheterodonta
          Pholadomyoida
          Lucinoida
            Lucinoidea
              Lucinidae
                  Anodontia
                  Ctena
                  Divaricella
                  Linga
                  Loripes
                  Lucinella
                  Lucinoma
                    Lucinoma borealis
                    Lucinoma filosa
                    Lucinoma blakeana
                    Lucinoma atlantis
                    Lucinoma spelaeum
                    Lucinoma kazani
                    Lucinoma anemiophila
                    Lucinoma gagei
                    Lucinoma atalantae
                    Lucinoma myriamae
                    Lucinoma dulcinea
                    Lucinoma kastoroae
                    Lucinoma rhomboidalis
                    Lucinoma sibogae
                    Lucinoma taiwanensis
                    Lucinoma aequizonata
                    Lucinoma adamsiana
                    Lucinoma annulata
                    Lucinoma bengalensis
                    Lucinoma euclia
                    Lucinoma galathea
                    Lucinoma heroica
                    Lucinoma japonica
                    Lucinoma lamellata
                    Lucinoma vestita
                    Lucinoma yoshidai
                    Lucinoma lamelligera
                    Lucinoma percirrata
                    Lucinoma antarctica
                    Lucinoma asapheus
                  Megaxinus
                  Myrtea
                  Divalinga
            Thyasiroidea
      Palaeoheterodonta
    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
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
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