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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
  Annelida
  Nemertina
  Arthropoda
  Ctenophora
  Cnidaria
  Sipuncula
  Echiura
  Pogonophora
  Entoprocta
  Tardigrada
  Phoronida
  Brachiopoda
  Echinodermata
  Hemichordata
  Chordata
  Gastrotricha
  Chaetognatha
  Ectoprocta
  Mesozoa
  Rotifera
  Gnathostomulida
  Acanthocephala
    Palaeacanthocephala
      Echinorhynchida
        Arhythmacanthidae
        Echinorhynchidae
          Echinorhynchinae
              Acanthocephalus
              Echinorhynchus
                Echinorhynchus armoricanus
                Echinorhynchus borealis
                Echinorhynchus bothniensis
                Echinorhynchus brayi
                Echinorhynchus calloti
                Echinorhynchus cinctulus
                Echinorhynchus gadi
                Echinorhynchus trachyrinci
                Echinorhynchus strumosum
                Echinorhynchus longicollis
                Echinorhynchus lateralis
                Echinorhynchus laurentianus
                Echinorhynchus salmonis
                Echinorhynchus muraenolepisi
                Echinorhynchus petrotschenkoi
                Echinorhynchus megarhynchus
                Echinorhynchus zanclorhynchi
                Echinorhynchus heteracanthus
                Echinorhynchus nototheniae
                Echinorhynchus georgianus
                Echinorhynchus campbelli
                Echinorhynchus rennicki
                Echinorhynchus debenhami
                Echinorhynchus balaenae
                Echinorhynchus brevicolle
                Echinorhynchus bullosum
                Echinorhynchus hamanni
                Echinorhynchus lageniformis
                Echinorhynchus abyssicola
                Echinorhynchus canyonensis
                Echinorhynchus cestodicola
                Echinorhynchus dissimilis
                Echinorhynchus indicus
                Echinorhynchus longiproboscis
                Echinorhynchus lotellae
                Echinorhynchus malacocephali
                Echinorhynchus melanoglaeae
                Echinorhynchus sebastolobi
                Echinorhynchus serpentulus 
                Echinorhynchus theragrae
                Echinorhynchus truttae
                Echinorhynchus veli
              Metechinorhynchus
              Solearhynchus
              Brasacanthus
              Echinorhynchoides
        Heteracanthocephalidae
        Rhadinorhynchidae
        Illiosentidae
        Cavisomidae
        Pomphorhynchidae
      Polymorphida
    Eoacanthocephala
  Cycliophora
  Cephalorhyncha
  Placozoa
  Bryozoa
  Myxozoa
  Sipunculida
  Pentastomida
  Nemertini
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