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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
    Calcarea
      Calcaronea
        Leucosolenida
          Amphoriscidae
          Grantiidae
          Heteropiidae
              Heteropia
              Sycettusa
                Sycettusa nitida
                Sycettusa connexiva
                Sycettusa simplex
                Sycettusa stauridia
                Sycettusa tenuis
                Sycettusa glacialis
                Sycettusa chilensis
                Sycettusa bathybia
                Sycettusa glomerosa
                Sycettusa glacialis
                Sycettusa kuekenthali
                Sycettusa lanceolata
                Sycettusa murmanensis
                Sycettusa thompsoni
                Sycettusa sycilloides
                Sycettusa poculum
                Sycettusa glabra
                Sycettusa hastifera
                Sycettusa flamma
                Sycettusa sibogae
              Grantessa
              Grantilla
              Paraheteropia
              Syconessa
              Vosmaeropsis
          Leucosoleniidae
          Sycettidae
          Achramorphidae
          Jenkinidae
          Lelapiidae
          Sycanthidae
          Staurorrhaphidae
          Djeddeidae
          Scyphidae
        Lithonida
        Sycettida
        Baerida
        Syconosa
      Calcinea
    Hexactinellida
    Homoscleromorpha
    Porifera incertae sedis
    Demospongiae
    Sclerospongiae
    Hyalospongiae
    Calcispongiae
  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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