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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
    Polyplacophora
      Neoloricata
        Lepidopleurida
        Chitonida
          Ischnochitonina
          Acanthochitonina
          Chitonina
            Chitonoidea
              Chitonidae
                Chitoninae
                Acanthopleurinae
                Rapanuiinae
                Toniciinae
                    Onithochiton
                    Tonicia
                    Lucilina
                      Lucilina dilecta
                      Lucilina amanda
                      Lucilina carnosa
                      Lucilina carpenteri
                      Lucilina ceylonica
                      Lucilina dupuisi
                      Lucilina floccata
                      Lucilina fortilirata
                      Lucilina hulliana
                      Lucilina indica
                      Lucilina interplicata
                      Lucilina lamellosa
                      Lucilina mariae
                      Lucilina nigropunctata
                      Lucilina novemrugata
                      Lucilina pacifica
                      Lucilina pectinoides
                      Lucilina perligera
                      Lucilina polyomma
                      Lucilina reticulata
                      Lucilina shirleyi
                      Lucilina sowerbyi
                      Lucilina sueziensis
                      Lucilina tilbrooki
                      Lucilina truncata
                      Lucilina tydemani
                      Lucilina variegata
                    Onithella
              Ischnochitonidae
              Callochitonidae
              Callistoplacidae
              Chaetopleuridae
              Loricidae
              Acanthopleuridae
            Schizochitonoidea
    Gastropoda
    Scaphopoda
    Bivalvia
    Monoplacophora
    Solenogastres
    Cephalopoda
    Placophora
    Aculifera
    Conchifera
    Pelecypoda
    Caudofoveata
    Lamellibranchiata
    Conchifera
  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
  Cycliophora
  Cephalorhyncha
  Placozoa
  Bryozoa
  Myxozoa
  Sipunculida
  Pentastomida
  Nemertini
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Protozoa
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Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera