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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
    Anthozoa
      Hexacorallia
      Octocorallia
        Alcyonacea
        Gorgonacea
        Pennatulacea
          Subsessiliflorae
            Halipteridae
            Pennatulidae
            Virgulariidae
              Stylatula
              Virgularia
                  Virgularia glacialis
                  Virgularia mirabilis
                  Virgularia tuberculata
                  Virgularia schultzei
                  Virgularia gustaviana
                  Virgularia abies
                  Virgularia agassizi
                  Virgularia alba
                  Virgularia brochi
                  Virgularia bromleyi
                  Virgularia densa
                  Virgularia galapagensis
                  Virgularia gracillima
                  Virgularia halisceptrum
                  Virgularia juncea
                  Virgularia kophameli
                  Virgularia presbytes
                  Virgularia reinwardti
                  Virgularia rumphi
              Balticina
              Acanthoptilum
          Sessiliflorae
      Zoantharia
    Hydrozoa
    Cnidaria incertae sedis
    Cubozoa
    Scyphozoa
    Staurozoa
  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
Monera