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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
      Hexasterophora
        Hexactinosa
        Lyssacinosa
        Aulocalycoida
        Fieldingida
        Hexactinosida
        Lychniscosida
        Lyssacinosida
          Caulophacidae
          Euplectellidae
          Leucopsacidae
          Rossellidae
            Lanuginellinae
            Rossellinae
              Holtenia
              Caulophacus
                  Caulophacus (Caulodiscus)
                  Caulophacus (Caulophacus)
                  Caulophacus (Oxydiscus)
                  Caulophacus abyssalis
                  Caulophacus agassizi
                  Caulophacus antarcticus
                  Caulophacus basispinosus
                  Caulophacus discohexactinus
                  Caulophacus elegans
                  Caulophacus galatheae
                  Caulophacus hadalis
                  Caulophacus instabilis
                  Caulophacus latus
                  Caulophacus schulzei
                  Caulophacus scotiae
                  Caulophacus variens
                  Caulophacus brandti
                  Caulophacus lotifolium
                  Caulophacus onychohexactinus
                  Caulophacus polyspicula
                  Caulophacus valdiviae
                  Caulophacus weddelli
                  Caulophacus discohexaster
                  Caulophacus arcticus
                  Caulophacus pipetta
              Anoxycalyx
              Asconema
              Bathydorus
              Rossella
              Schaudinnia
              Scyphidium
              Trichasterina
              Acanthascus
              Aphorme
              Aulosaccus
              Caulophacella
              Crateromorpha
              Hyalascus
              Vazella
              Vitrollula
              Rhabdocalyptus
              Anaulosoma
              Aulorossella
              Balanites
              Calycosaccus
              Gymnorossella
              Polyrhabdus
              Pleorhabdus
              Balanella
              Aulochone
              Scolymastra
              Staurocalyptus
              Caulodiscus
              Nodastrella
            Askonematinae
          Lyssacinosida incertae sedis
          Placoplegmidae
          Alcyoncellidae
          Sympagellidae
        Lychniscosa
      Amphidiscophora
    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
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