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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
        Dysideidae
        Irciniidae
        Spongiidae
        Thorectidae
          Phyllospongiinae
          Thorectinae
            Aplysinopsis
            Cacospongia
                Cacospongia carduelis
                Cacospongia cavernosa
                Cacospongia mollior
                Cacospongia procumbens
                Cacospongia proficens
                Cacospongia scalaris
                Cacospongia amorpha
                Cacospongia aspergillum
                Cacospongia intermedia
                Cacospongia levis
                Cacospongia mycofijiensis
                Cacospongia ridleyi
                Cacospongia serta
                Cacospongia symbiotica
                Cacospongia poculum
                Cacospongia camera
                Cacospongia cincta
                Cacospongia incognita
                Cacospongia similis
                Cacospongia tuberculata
                Cacospongia schmidti
                Cacospongia murrayi
                Cacospongia prima
                Cacospongia collectrix
                Cacospongia dendroides
                Cacospongia friabilis
                Cacospongia irregularis
                Cacospongia oligoceras
                Cacospongia spinifera
                Cacospongia compacta
                Cacospongia vesiculifera
                Cacospongia coreana
                Cacospongia exemplum
                Cacospongia mollior
                Cacospongia herdmani
            Fasciospongia
            Heteronema
            Hyrtios
            Oligoceras
            Stelospongia
            Thorectandra
            Collospongia
            Dactylospongia
            Fascaplysinopsis
            Fenestraspongia
            Luffariella
            Narrabeena
            Petrosaspongia
            Scalarispongia
            Semitaspongia
            Smenospongia
            Taonura
            Thorecta
            Thorectaxia
            Duriella
            Dysideopsis
            Geelongia
            Halispongia
            Stelospongos
            Stelospongus
            Thorectopsamma
            Antheroplax
            Inodes
        Verticillitidae
      Halichondrida
      Halisarcida
      Haplosclerida
      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
Plantae
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Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
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