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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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Animalia
  Mollusca
  Porifera
    Calcarea
    Hexactinellida
    Homoscleromorpha
    Porifera incertae sedis
    Demospongiae
      Ceractinomorpha
      Tetractinomorpha
      Dendroceratida
      Dictyoceratida
      Halichondrida
      Halisarcida
      Haplosclerida
      Poecilosclerida
      Verongida
      Astrophorida
      Chondrosida
      Hadromerida
      'Lithistida'
      Spirophorida
      Petrosida
      Nepheliospongida
      Choristida
      Axinellida
      Agelasida
        Agelasidae
          Agelas
            Agelas oroides
            Agelas axifera
            Agelas bispiculata
            Agelas carpenteri
            Agelas cavernosa
            Agelas cerebrum
            Agelas cervicornis
            Agelas ceylonica
            Agelas citrina
            Agelas clathrodes
            Agelas conifera
            Agelas dendromorpha
            Agelas dilatata
            Agelas dispar
            Agelas fascicularis
            Agelas flabelliformis
            Agelas gracilis
            Agelas inaequalis
            Agelas marmarica
            Agelas mauritiana
                Agelas mauritiana var. oxeata
            Agelas nakamurai
            Agelas nemoechinata
            Agelas novaecaledoniae
            Agelas repens
            Agelas robusta
            Agelas rudis
            Agelas sceptrum
            Agelas schmidti
            Agelas semiglaber
            Agelas sventres
            Agelas tubulata
            Agelas wiedenmayeri
            Agelas longissima
            Agelas albolutea
            Agelas adriatica
            Agelas clavaeformis
            Agelas sparsus
            Agelas cylindrica
            Agelas arborescens
            Agelas linnaei
            Agelas braekmani
          Chalinopsis
          Ectyon
          Oroidea
          Pachychalinopsis
          Siphonochalinopsis
        Astroscleridae
        Chalinopsididae
        Ectyonidae
        Hymerhabdiidae
      Demospongiae incertae sedis
      Verticillitida
      Keratosa
      Myxospongiae
      Gummineae
      Verongimorpha
      Tetractinellida
      Democlavia
    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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Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
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