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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
  Porifera
  Platyhelminthes
  Nematoda
  Annelida
  Nemertina
  Arthropoda
  Ctenophora
  Cnidaria
  Sipuncula
  Echiura
  Pogonophora
  Entoprocta
  Tardigrada
  Phoronida
  Brachiopoda
  Echinodermata
    Crinozoa
    Asterozoa
    Echinozoa
      Echinoidea
        Euechinoidea
          Echinothuroida
          Gnathostomata
          Echinothurioida
          Irregularia
          Aulodonta
          Acroechinoidea
          Carinacea
            Echinacea
              Arbacioida
                Arbaciidae
                    Arbacia
                    Arbaciella
                    Coelopleurus
                    Habrocidaris
                    Podocidaris
                    Echinocidaris
                      Echinocidaris (Agarites)
                      Echinocidaris (Tetrapygus)
                      Echinocidaris aequituberculata
                      Echinocidaris davisii
                      Echinocidaris dufresnii
                      Echinocidaris grandinosa
                      Echinocidaris incisa
                      Echinocidaris loculatua
                      Echinocidaris longispina
                      Echinocidaris nigra
                      Echinocidaris punctulata
                      Echinocidaris pustulosa
                      Echinocidaris schythei
                      Echinocidaris spatuliger
                      Echinocidaris spatuligera
                      Echinocidaris stellatus
                    Keraiophorus
                    Arbia
                    Baueria
                    Codiopsis
                    Dialithocidaris
                    Pygmaeocidaris
                    Tetrapygus
                    Sexpyga
                    Anapesus
                    Agarites
                    Pygomma
                    Cottaldia
                    Arbacea
                Acropeltidae
                Coelopleuridae
                Glypticidae
                Gymnodiadema
                Atopechinidae
              Echinoida
              Temnopleuroida
              Camarodonta
              Stomopneustoida
              Glyphopneustidae
            Calycina
            Stirodonta
            Hemicidaridae
            Orthopsidae
            Pseudodiadematidae
        Perischoechinoidea
        Echinoidea incertae sedis
        Cidaroidea
        Palaeozoic Echinoidea
        Glyphostoma
      Holothuroidea
  Hemichordata
  Chordata
  Gastrotricha
  Chaetognatha
  Ectoprocta
  Mesozoa
  Rotifera
  Gnathostomulida
  Acanthocephala
  Cycliophora
  Cephalorhyncha
  Placozoa
  Bryozoa
  Myxozoa
  Sipunculida
  Pentastomida
  Nemertini
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