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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
          Oegopsida
          Sepiolida
            Sepiolidae
              Heteroteuthis
              Neorossia
              Rondeletiola
              Rossia
                  Rossia macrosoma
                  Rossia brachyura
                  Rossia bullisi
                  Rossia hyatti
                  Rossia mollicella
                  Rossia tortugaensis
                  Rossia antillensis
                  Rossia bipapillata
                  Rossia mastigophora
                  Rossia pacifica
                  Rossia sublaevis
              Sepietta
              Sepiola
              Stoloteuthis
              Austrorossia
              Euprymna
              Inioteuthis
              Iridoteuthis
              Nectoteuthis
              Sepiolina
          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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