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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
    Polyplacophora
    Gastropoda
    Scaphopoda
    Bivalvia
    Monoplacophora
    Solenogastres
    Cephalopoda
      Coleoidea
        Decapodiformes
          Sepiida
            Sepiidae
                Sepia
                  Sepia bertheloti
                  Sepia elegans
                  Sepia officinalis
                  Sepia orbignyana
                  Sepia zebrina
                  Sepia italica
                  Sepia pharaonis
                  Sepia australis
                  Sepia simoniana
                  Sepia aculeata
                  Sepia acuminata
                  Sepia adami
                  Sepia andreana
                  Sepia angulata
                  Sepia apama
                  Sepia appeloefi
                  Sepia aureomaculata
                  Sepia bandensis
                  Sepia bartletti
                  Sepia bathyalis
                  Sepia baxteri
                  Sepia bidhaia
                  Sepia braggi
                  Sepia brevimana
                  Sepia burnupi
                  Sepia carinata
                  Sepia chirotrema
                  Sepia confusa
                  Sepia cottoni
                  Sepia cultrata
                  Sepia dannevigi
                  Sepia elliptica
                  Sepia elobyana
                  Sepia erostrata
                  Sepia esculenta
                  Sepia faurei
                  Sepia filibrachia
                  Sepia foliopeza
                  Sepia furcata
                  Sepia hedleyi
                  Sepia hieronis
                  Sepia hierredda
                  Sepia hirunda
                  Sepia incerta
                  Sepia insignis
                  Sepia irvingi
                  Sepia ivanovi
                  Sepia joubini
                  Sepia kobiensis
                  Sepia limata
                  Sepia longipes
                  Sepia lorigera
                  Sepia lycidas
                  Sepia madokai
                  Sepia mascarensis
                  Sepia mestus
                  Sepia mira
                  Sepia mirabilis
                  Sepia novaehollandiae
                  Sepia omani
                  Sepia opipara
                  Sepia papillata
                  Sepia papuensis
                  Sepia pardalis
                  Sepia pardex
                  Sepia peterseni
                  Sepia plangon
                  Sepia plathyconchalis
                  Sepia pulchra
                  Sepia recurvirostra
                  Sepia reesi
                  Sepia rex
                  Sepia rhoda
                  Sepia robsoni
                  Sepia rozella
                  Sepia saya
                  Sepia sewelli
                  Sepia smithi
                  Sepia sokotriensis
                  Sepia stellifera
                  Sepia subtenuipes
                  Sepia sulcata
                  Sepia tala
                  Sepia tenuipes
                  Sepia thurstoni
                  Sepia tokioensis
                  Sepia vercoi
                  Sepia vervoi
                  Sepia vietnamica
                  Sepia whitleyana
                  Sepia zanzibarica
                  Sepia misakiensis
                  Sepia prabahari
                  Sepia orbigniana
                  Sepia grahami
                  Sepia ramani
                  Sepia vossi
                  Sepia appellofi
                  Sepia dubia
                  Sepia kiensis
                  Sepia koilados
                  Sepia plana
                  Sepia senta
                  Sepia subplana
                  Sepia tanybracheia
                Hemisepius
                Metasepia
          Teuthida
          Myopsida
          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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