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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
                      Tonicia indica
                        Tonicia indica var. pacifica
                      Tonicia (Lucilina)
                      Tonicia arnheimi
                      Tonicia atrata
                      Tonicia calbucensis
                      Tonicia chilensis
                      Tonicia disjuncta
                      Tonicia forbesii
                      Tonicia horniana
                      Tonicia lebruni
                      Tonicia schrammi
                      Tonicia smithi
                      Tonicia swainsoni
                      Tonicia rubiginosus
                      Tonicia gambiensis
                      Tonicia mixta
                      Tonicia carpenteri
                      Tonicia ceylonica
                      Tonicia dupuisi
                      Tonicia hullianus
                      Tonicia novemrugata
                      Tonicia pectinoides
                      Tonicia polyomma
                      Tonicia reticulata
                      Tonicia sowerbyi
                      Tonicia tydemani
                      Tonicia variegata
                      Tonicia martiali
                      Tonicia cuneata
                  Lucilina
                  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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