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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
              Amphiute
              Aphroceras
              Grantia
              Leucandra
              Leucogypsia
              Sphenoporina
              Ute
              Sycandra
              Sycodorus
              Leucandrilla
              Leucettaga
              Sycute
                Sycute dendyi
              Synute
              Teichonopsis
              Artynas
              Cyathiscus
              Dyssycum
              Hypograntia
              Leucortis
              Medon
              Mlea
              Paragrantia
              Sycinula
              Sycophyllum
              Vosmaeria
              Hozawaia
          Heteropiidae
          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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