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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
      Halichondrida
      Halisarcida
      Haplosclerida
        Haplosclerina
        Petrosina
          Petrosiidae
            Petrosia
            Schmidtia
            Xestospongia
              Xestospongia friabilis
              Xestospongia magna
              Xestospongia plana
              Xestospongia variabilis
              Xestospongia bergquistia
              Xestospongia caminata
              Xestospongia clavata
              Xestospongia coralloides
              Xestospongia cylindrica
              Xestospongia delaubenfelsi
              Xestospongia deweerdtae
              Xestospongia diprosopia
              Xestospongia gibbosa
              Xestospongia grayi
              Xestospongia hispida
              Xestospongia informis
              Xestospongia madidus
              Xestospongia mammillata
              Xestospongia menzeli
              Xestospongia muta
              Xestospongia novaezealandiae
              Xestospongia papuensis
              Xestospongia portoricensis
              Xestospongia proxima
              Xestospongia rampa
              Xestospongia ridleyi
              Xestospongia rosariensis
              Xestospongia testudinaria
                  Xestospongia testudinaria var. fistulophora
              Xestospongia tuberosa
              Xestospongia vansoesti
              Xestospongia viridenigra
              Xestospongia wiedenmayeri
              Xestospongia fistulata
              Xestospongia trindanea
              Xestospongia caycedoi
              Xestospongia dominicana
              Xestospongia sapra
              Xestospongia pacifica
              Xestospongia dubia
              Xestospongia edapha
              Xestospongia emphasis
              Xestospongia exigua
              Xestospongia subtriangularis
              Xestospongia carbonaria
              Xestospongia bocatorensis
              Xestospongia variabilis
              Xestospongia arenosa
              Xestospongia cretacea
              Xestospongia marquezii
              Xestospongia halichondrioides
              Xestospongia vanilla
              Xestospongia calyx
            Acanthostrongylophora
            Neopetrosia
            Chalinohaphis
            Chalinorhaphis
            Densa
            Quepanetsal
            Rayneria
            Strongylophora
            Pharetronema
          Phloeodictyidae
          Oceanapiidae
          Calcifibrospongiidae
          Akaidae
      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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