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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
    Echinozoa
      Echinoidea
        Euechinoidea
          Echinothuroida
          Gnathostomata
          Echinothurioida
          Irregularia
          Aulodonta
          Acroechinoidea
          Carinacea
            Echinacea
              Arbacioida
              Echinoida
              Temnopleuroida
              Camarodonta
                Parasaleniidae
                Echinidea
                  Echinidae
                  Odontophora
                    Strongylocentrotidae
                    Toxopneustidae
                    Echinometridae
                      Colobocentrotus
                      Podophora
                      Echinometra
                          Echinometra quoyi
                          Echinometra lucunter
                            Echinometra lucunter lucunter
                            Echinometra lucunter polypora
                            Echinometra lucunter violacea
                          Echinometra oblonga
                          Echinometra setosa
                          Echinometra mathaei
                          Echinometra viridis
                          Echinometra insularis
                          Echinometra vanbrunti
                          Echinometra (Acrocladia)
                          Echinometra acufera
                          Echinometra atra
                          Echinometra atrata
                          Echinometra blainvillii
                          Echinometra brunea
                          Echinometra carinata
                          Echinometra droebachiensis
                          Echinometra hastifera
                          Echinometra heteropora
                          Echinometra lobatus
                          Echinometra macrostoma
                          Echinometra mammillata
                          Echinometra megastoma
                          Echinometra mertensii
                          Echinometra michelini
                          Echinometra microtuberculata
                          Echinometra nigrina
                          Echinometra pedifera
                          Echinometra picta
                          Echinometra plana
                          Echinometra pugionifera
                          Echinometra rupicola
                          Echinometra setosa
                          Echinometra subangularis
                          Echinometra trigonarius
                          Echinometra van brunti
                          Echinometra van-brunti
                      Heliocidaris
                      Heterocentrotus
                      Ellipsechinus
                      Echinostrephus
                      Evechinus
                      Caenocentrotus
                      Pachechinus
                      Selenechinus
                      Zenocentrotus
                      Podophorae
                      Anthocidaris
                      Pachycentrotus
                      Acrocladia
                      Coenocentrotus
                      Toxocidaris
                      Mortensenia
                      Heterocentrus
                      Authoeidaris
                    Echinometradæ
                  Parechinidae
                Temnopleuridea
                Circopeltinae
                Porosoma
                Coptosoma
                Microsoma
                Eurypneustes
                Aeolopneustes
                Triplacidia
                Acrocircus
              Stomopneustoida
              Glyphopneustidae
            Calycina
            Stirodonta
            Hemicidaridae
            Orthopsidae
            Pseudodiadematidae
        Perischoechinoidea
        Echinoidea incertae sedis
        Cidaroidea
        Palaeozoic Echinoidea
        Glyphostoma
      Holothuroidea
  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