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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
          Leucaltidae
            Ascandra
            Leucaltis
              Leucaltis clathria
              Leucaltis impressa
              Leucaltis compressa
              Leucaltis tenuis
              Leucaltis gastrorhabdifera
              Leucaltis bleeki
              Leucaltis crustacea
              Leucaltis curva
              Leucaltis nausicaae
              Leucaltis normanni
              Leucaltis floridana
              Leucaltis bathybia
                  Leucaltis bathybia var. mascarenica
                  Leucaltis bathybia var. australiensis
              Leucaltis pumila
              Leucaltis nuda
              Leucaltis helena
              Leucaltis mauritiana
            Leuclathrina
            Leucettusa
            Heteropegma
            Homandra
            Leucettusinae
          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
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Protozoa
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Chromista
Archaea
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