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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
  Hemichordata
  Chordata
    Urochordata
    Cephalochordata
    Vertebrata
      Gnathostomata
        Tetrapoda
        Pisces
          Elasmobranchii
          Actinopterygii
            Acipenseriformes
            Elopiformes
            Notacanthiformes
            Anguilliformes
            Saccopharyngiformes
            Clupeiformes
            Osmeriformes
            Salmoniformes
            Stomiiformes
            Ateleopodiformes
            Aulopiformes
            Myctophiformes
            Lampriformes
            Polymixiiformes
            Gadiformes
            Ophidiiformes
            Batrachoidiformes
            Lophiiformes
            Gobiesociformes
            Atheriniformes
            Cyprinodontiformes
            Beloniformes
            Stephanoberyciformes
            Beryciformes
            Cetomimiformes
            Gasterosteiformes
            Syngnathiformes
            Scorpaeniformes
            Pleuronectiformes
              Bothidae
              Citharidae
              Cynoglossidae
              Pleuronectidae
                Glyptocephalus
                Hippoglossoides
                Hippoglossus
                Limanda
                Microstomus
                Platichthys
                Pleuronectes
                    Pleuronectes platessa
                    Pleuronectes cynoglossus
                    Pleuronectes flesus
                    Pleuronectes arnoglossus
                    Pleuronectes rhombus
                    Pleuronectes maximus
                    Pleuronectes megastoma
                    Pleuronectes hippoglossus
                    Pleuronectes platessoides
                    Pleuronectes luteus
                    Pleuronectes microcephalus
                    Pleuronectes cyclops
                    Pleuronectes solea
                    Pleuronectes quadrituberculatus
                    Pleuronectes bogdanovii
                    Pleuronectes borealis
                    Pleuronectes conspersus
                    Pleuronectes diaphanus
                    Pleuronectes flesoides
                    Pleuronectes gilli
                    Pleuronectes italicus
                    Pleuronectes kitt
                    Pleuronectes laevis
                    Pleuronectes laevis
                    Pleuronectes lascaris
                    Pleuronectes laterna
                    Pleuronectes latus
                    Pleuronectes leotardi
                    Pleuronectes limanda
                    Pleuronectes limandoides
                    Pleuronectes luscus
                    Pleuronectes nasutus
                    Pleuronectes nigromanus
                    Pleuronectes passer
                    Pleuronectes pellucidus
                    Pleuronectes pseudopalus
                    Pleuronectes punctatus
                    Pleuronectes roseus
                    Pleuronectes saxicola
                    Pleuronectes turbot
                    Pleuronectes whiffiagonis
                    Pleuronectes grohmanni
                    Pleuronectes platessus
                Reinhardtius
              Scophthalmidae
              Soleidae
              Paralichthyidae
            Tetraodontiformes
            Zeiformes
            Perciformes
            Mugiliformes
          Holocephali
      Agnatha
    Tunicata
  Gastrotricha
  Chaetognatha
  Ectoprocta
  Mesozoa
  Rotifera
  Gnathostomulida
  Acanthocephala
  Cycliophora
  Cephalorhyncha
  Placozoa
  Bryozoa
  Myxozoa
  Sipunculida
  Pentastomida
  Nemertini
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