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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
      Poecilosclerida
      Verongida
      Astrophorida
        Ancorinidae
        Coppatiidae
        Geodiidae
        Pachastrellidae
        Theneidae
        Thrombidae
        Stellettidae
        Calthropellidae
        Alectonidae
        Thoosidae
        Astrophorida incertae sedis
        Vulcanellidae
          Poecillastra
            Poecillastra amygdaloides
            Poecillastra armata
            Poecillastra compressa
                Poecillastra compressa antarctica
            Poecillastra crassiuscula
            Poecillastra cumana
            Poecillastra fragilis
            Poecillastra pachastrelloides
            Poecillastra rudiastra
            Poecillastra saxicola
            Poecillastra scabra
            Poecillastra sollasi
            Poecillastra symbiotica
            Poecillastra ciliata
            Poecillastra cribraria
            Poecillastra dissimilis
            Poecillastra eccentrica
            Poecillastra incrustans
            Poecillastra japonica
            Poecillastra laminaris
            Poecillastra nana
            Poecillastra rickettsi
            Poecillastra schulzei
            Poecillastra stipitata
            Poecillastra tenuilaminaris
            Poecillastra tenuirhabda
            Poecillastra tuberosa
            Poecillastra wondoensis
            Poecillastra antonbruunae
            Poecillastra maremontana
            Poecillastra sinetridens
          Sphinctrella
          Vulcanella
          Chelotropaena
          Normania
          Sphincterella
      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
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
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