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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
            Grantessa
                Grantessa glacialis
                Grantessa kuekenthali
                Grantessa lanceolata
                Grantessa murmanensis
                Grantessa nitida
                Grantessa thompsoni
                Grantessa ampullae
                Grantessa anisactina
                Grantessa basipapillata
                Grantessa boomerang
                Grantessa compressa
                Grantessa erecta
                Grantessa erinaceus
                Grantessa flamma
                Grantessa glabra
                Grantessa gracilis
                Grantessa hirsuta
                Grantessa hispida
                Grantessa intusarticulata
                Grantessa mitsukurii
                Grantessa nemurensis
                Grantessa pelagica
                Grantessa pluriosculifera
                Grantessa poculum
                Grantessa polyperistomia
                Grantessa preiwischi
                Grantessa ramosa
                Grantessa rarispinosa
                Grantessa sacca
                Grantessa sagamiana
                Grantessa shimeji
                Grantessa shimoda
                Grantessa spissa
                Grantessa sycilloides
                Grantessa sibogae
                Grantessa simplex
                Grantessa zanzibarensis
                Grantessa syconiformis
                Grantessa zanzibaris
                Grantessa hastifera
                Grantessa grantiformis
                Grantessa parva
            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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