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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
    Hexactinellida
    Homoscleromorpha
    Porifera incertae sedis
    Demospongiae
      Ceractinomorpha
      Tetractinomorpha
      Dendroceratida
      Dictyoceratida
        Dysideidae
          Pleraplysilla
          Dysidea
            Dysidea avara
            Dysidea elastica
            Dysidea elegans
            Dysidea fragilis
            Dysidea incrustans
            Dysidea pallescens
            Dysidea perfistulata
            Dysidea papillosa
            Dysidea aedificanda
            Dysidea alta
            Dysidea amblia
            Dysidea anceps
            Dysidea arenaria
            Dysidea cacos
            Dysidea cana
            Dysidea chalinoides
            Dysidea chilensis
            Dysidea chlorea
            Dysidea cinerea
            Dysidea conica
            Dysidea crassa
            Dysidea cristagalli
            Dysidea dakini
            Dysidea dendyi
            Dysidea digitifera
            Dysidea distans
            Dysidea dubia
            Dysidea enormis
            Dysidea etheria
            Dysidea fasciculata
            Dysidea flabellum
            Dysidea frondosa
            Dysidea gracilis
            Dysidea granulosa
            Dysidea hirciniformis
            Dysidea horrens
            Dysidea implexa
            Dysidea incrustata
            Dysidea janiae
            Dysidea laxa
            Dysidea ligneana
            Dysidea marshalli
            Dysidea minna
            Dysidea navicularis
            Dysidea nigrescens
            Dysidea oculata
            Dysidea ramoglomerata
                Dysidea ramoglomerata var. granulata
                Dysidea ramoglomerata var. ramotubulata
            Dysidea ramosa
            Dysidea rhax
            Dysidea robusta
            Dysidea sagum
            Dysidea septosa
            Dysidea spiculifera
            Dysidea spiculivora
            Dysidea spinosa
            Dysidea tenuifibra
            Dysidea tubulata
            Dysidea variabilis
            Dysidea villosa
            Dysidea tupha
            Dysidea crawshayi
            Dysidea tubulosa
            Dysidea semicanalis
            Dysidea kirkii
            Dysidea favosa
            Dysidea gumminea
            Dysidea nigra
            Dysidea callosum
            Dysidea chaliniformis
            Dysidea argentea
            Dysidea herbacea
            Dysidea elegans
          Spongelia
          Collospongelia
          Citronia
          Euryspongia
          Lamellodysidea
          Paraspongia
          Aulena
          Duseideia
          Haastia
          Halmopsis
        Irciniidae
        Spongiidae
        Thorectidae
        Verticillitidae
      Halichondrida
      Halisarcida
      Haplosclerida
      Poecilosclerida
      Verongida
      Astrophorida
      Chondrosida
      Hadromerida
      'Lithistida'
      Spirophorida
      Petrosida
      Nepheliospongida
      Choristida
      Axinellida
      Agelasida
      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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