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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
          Phloeodictyidae
            Aka
                Aka infesta
                Aka brevitubulata
                Aka cachacrouensis
                Aka coralliphaga
                Aka densa
                Aka diagonoxea
                Aka insidiosa
                Aka labyrinthica
                Aka maldiviensis
                Aka minuta
                Aka mucosa
                Aka nodosa
                Aka paratypica
                Aka rodens
                Aka siphona
                Aka terebrans
                Aka trachys
                Aka xamaycaensis
                Aka laccadivensis
                Aka cryptica
                Aka coralliirubri
                Aka microterebrans
                Aka ruetzleri
                Aka coralliphagum
                Aka coralliophaga
            Calyx
            Oceanapia
            Phloeodictyon
            Phloeodictyum
            Rhizochalina
            Biminia
            Pachypellina
            Tabulocalyx
            Vagocia
            Acca
            Siphonodictyon
            Foliolina
            Lieberkuhnia
          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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