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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
      Halichondrida
      Halisarcida
      Haplosclerida
      Poecilosclerida
        Microcionina
          Iophonidae
          Microcionidae
            Microcioninae
                Cornulotrocha
                Clathria
                Hymantho
                Microciona
                Paresperia
                Rhaphidophlus
                Echinochalina
                Holopsamma
                Pandaros
                Axociella
                Pseudanchinoe
                Stylotellopsis
                Aaata
                Anaata
                Antherochalina
                Aulenella
                Axocielita
                Clathriopsamma
                Colloclathria
                Dendrocia
                Dictyociona
                Echinonema
                Fisherispongia
                Halme
                Leptoclathria
                Litaspongia
                Marleyia
                Ophistospongia
                Oplitaspongia
                Paratenaciella
                Plectispa
                Protophlitaspongia
                Psammotoxa
                Raphidophlus
                Rhapidophlus
                Tenacia
                Thalassodendron
                Thalyseurypon
                Wilsonella
                Allocia
                  Allocia chelifera
                Damoseni
                Labacea
                Ligrota
                Paradoryx
                Pitalia
                Ramoses
                Sophax
                Tablis
                Tenaciella
                Isociella
                Thalysias
                Axosuberites
                Wetmoreus
            Ophlitaspongiinae
            Acarniidae
            Ophlitaspongiidae
          Raspailiidae
          Rhabderemiidae
          Clathriidae
          Acarnidae
          Sollasellidae
          Iophoneae
          Cornulidae
        Mycalina
        Myxillina
        Latrunculina
      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
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