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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
  Platyhelminthes
  Nematoda
    Adenophorea
    Secernentea
      Tylenchida
      Rhabditida
      Ascaridida
        Ascaridoidea
          Anisakidae
            Anisakinae
            Goeziinae
            Raphidascaridinae
              Raphidascaridinea
                  Hysterothylacium
                    Hysterothylacium aduncum
                    Hysterothylacium arnoglossi
                    Hysterothylacium auctum
                    Hysterothylacium bifidalatum
                    Hysterothylacium collare
                    Hysterothylacium cornutum
                    Hysterothylacium corrugatum
                    Hysterothylacium cyclopteri
                    Hysterothylacium fabri
                    Hysterothylacium increscens
                    Hysterothylacium incurvum
                    Hysterothylacium legendrei
                    Hysterothylacium reliquens
                    Hysterothylacium rhacodes
                    Hysterothylacium rigidum
                    Hysterothylacium winteri
                    Hysterothylacium perezi
                    Hysterothylacium aetobatum
                    Hysterothylacium amoyense
                    Hysterothylacium gadi
                    Hysterothylacium marinum
                    Hysterothylacium physiculi
                    Hysterothylacium tasmaniense
                    Hysterothylacium nototheniae
                  Ichthyascaris
                  Raphidascaris
                  Raphidascaroides
              Paranisakinea
            Thynnascaris
            Acanthocheilinae
          Acanthocheilidae
          Ascarididae
        Seuratoidea
        Cosmocercoidea
        Heterocheilidae
      Strongylida
      Spirurida
      Diplogasterida
      Aphelenchida
    Nematoda incertae sedis
  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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Chromista
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