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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
        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 ramosa
              Dysidea rhax
              Dysidea robusta
              Dysidea sagum
              Dysidea septosa
              Dysidea spiculifera
              Dysidea spiculivora
              Dysidea spinosa
                Dysidea spinosa var. codmani
                Dysidea spinosa var. rigida
              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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Protozoa
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Chromista
Archaea
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