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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
      Calcaronea
      Calcinea
        Clathrinida
          Clathrinidae
              Clathrina
              Guancha
              Nardoa
              Ascetta
                Ascetta pedunculata
                Ascetta philippina
                Ascetta sagittaria
                Ascetta dictyoides
                Ascetta sceptrum
                Ascetta clathrina
                Ascetta maeandrina
                Ascetta membranacea
                Ascetta spinosa
                Ascetta poterium
                Ascetta protogenes
                Ascetta procumbens
                Ascetta mirabilis
                Ascetta flexilis
                Ascetta macleayi
                Ascetta clathrus
                Ascetta coriacea
                Ascetta primordialis
                Ascetta blanca
                Ascetta lamarcki
              Ascilla
              Auloplegma
              Prosycum
              Leucopsis
          Leucaltidae
          Leucascidae
          Levinellidae
          Clathrinida incertae sedis
          Leucettidae
          Soleneiscidae
          Dendyidae
          Soleniscidae
        Murrayonida
        Leucettida
        Asconosa
    Hexactinellida
    Homoscleromorpha
    Porifera incertae sedis
    Demospongiae
    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
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Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
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