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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
        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 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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