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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
    Crinozoa
    Asterozoa
      Asteroidea
        Velatida
        Platyasterida
        Concentricycloidea
        Euclasteroidea
        Forcipulatacea
        Valvatacea
          Notomyotida
          Paxillosida
          Valvatida
            Asterinidae
            Chaetasteridae
            Goniasteridae
            Odontasteridae
            Ophidiasteridae
            Poraniidae
            Sphaerasteridae
            Solasteridae
            Oreasteridae
            Mithrodiidae
            Asteropseidae
            Ganeriidae
            Archasteridae
                Astropus
                Archaster
                  Archaster bairdi
                  Archaster bifrons
                  Archaster christi
                  Archaster formosus
                  Archaster grandis
                  Archaster pulcher
                  Archaster robustus
                  Archaster sepitus
                  Archaster simplex
                  Archaster vexillifer
                  Archaster echinulatus
                  Archaster mirabilis
                  Archaster typicus
                  Archaster mauritianus
                  Archaster angulatus
                  Archaster lorioli
                  Archaster excavatus
                  Archaster agassizi
                  Archaster americanus
                  Archaster andromeda
                  Archaster angulatus
                  Archaster arcticus
                  Archaster christi
                  Archaster coronatus
                  Archaster dawsoni
                  Archaster efflorescens
                  Archaster florae
                  Archaster hesperus
                  Archaster insignis
                  Archaster laevis
                  Archaster longobrachialis
                  Archaster lucifer
                  Archaster magnificus
                  Archaster nicobaricus
                  Archaster parelii
                  Archaster subinermis
                  Archaster tenuispinus
                  Archaster tenuis
                  Archaster typicus
                  Archaster typicus
                Pararchasterinae
                Benthopectininae
                Plutonasterinae
            Acanthasteridae
            Asterodiscididae
            Gymnasteriidae
            Leilasteridae
            Podosphaerasteridae
            Pentopliidae
            Valvasteridae
            Linckiidae
            Gnathasteridae
            Asteropidae
        Spinulosacea
      Ophiuroidea
      Stelleroidea
    Echinozoa
  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