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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
          Pleraplysilla
          Dysidea
          Spongelia
            Spongelia avara
            Spongelia elastica
            Spongelia incrustans
            Spongelia pallescens
            Spongelia farlovii
            Spongelia rectilinea
            Spongelia velata
            Spongelia herbacea
            Spongelia delicatula
            Spongelia australis
            Spongelia spinifera
            Spongelia stellidermatum
            Spongelia cactos
            Spongelia incerta
            Spongelia repens
            Spongelia aedificanda
            Spongelia chalinoides
            Spongelia chilensis
            Spongelia dakini
            Spongelia distans
            Spongelia elastica
                Spongelia elastica var. lobosa
                Spongelia elastica var. massa
                Spongelia elastica var. crassa
            Spongelia crassa
            Spongelia incrustata
            Spongelia laxa
            Spongelia oculata
            Spongelia spinosa
            Spongelia anceps
            Spongelia cacos
            Spongelia cana
            Spongelia dubia
            Spongelia elegans
            Spongelia enormis
            Spongelia gracilis
            Spongelia horrens
            Spongelia ligneana
            Spongelia sagum
            Spongelia farlovi
            Spongelia fragilis
            Spongelia palmata
            Spongelia putrescens
            Spongelia tupha
            Spongelia cinerea
            Spongelia hirciniformis
            Spongelia kirkii
          Collospongelia
          Citronia
          Euryspongia
          Lamellodysidea
          Paraspongia
          Aulena
          Duseideia
          Haastia
          Halmopsis
        Irciniidae
        Spongiidae
        Thorectidae
        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
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera