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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
            Thyasiroidea
              Thyasiridae
                Axinodon
                Axinopsida
                Axinus
                Thyasira
                  Thyasira alleni
                  Thyasira biplicata
                  Thyasira biscayensis
                  Thyasira brevis
                  Thyasira croulinensis
                  Thyasira equalis
                  Thyasira eumyaria
                  Thyasira ferruginea
                  Thyasira flexuosa
                  Thyasira gouldi
                  Thyasira granulosa
                  Thyasira incrassata
                  Thyasira inflata
                  Thyasira oblonga
                  Thyasira obsoleta
                  Thyasira perplicata
                  Thyasira planata
                  Thyasira pygmaea
                  Thyasira sarsi
                  Thyasira striata
                  Thyasira subcircularis
                  Thyasira subovata
                  Thyasira succisa
                  Thyasira tortuosa
                  Thyasira transversa
                  Thyasira ultima
                  Thyasira (Parathyasira)
                      Thyasira (Parathyasira) dunbari
                      Thyasira (Parathyasira) resupina
                  Thyasira (Thyasira)
                  Thyasira cycladia
                  Thyasira dunbari
                  Thyasira vulcolutre
                  Thyasira methanophila
                  Thyasira southwardae
                  Thyasira borshengi
                  Thyasira scotiana
                  Thyasira resupina
                  Thyasira atlantica
                  Thyasira conia
                  Thyasira fuegiensis
                  Thyasira magellanica
                  Thyasira ovoidea
                  Thyasira subequatoria
                  Thyasira unilateralis
                  Thyasira barbarensis
                  Thyasira excavata
                  Thyasira rotunda
                  Thyasira peregrina
                  Thyasira waikanae
                  Thyasira tokunagai
                Axinulus
                Mendicula
                Spinaxinus
                Adontorhina
                Maorithyas
      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
Monera