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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
    Adenophorea
      Chromadoria
        Chromadorida
        Monhysterida
        Araeolaimida
        Desmodorida
          Desmodorina
            Desmodoroidea
              Desmodoridae
                Desmodorinae
                  Acanthopharyngoides
                  Acanthopharynx
                  Desmodora
                      Desmodora angusticollis
                      Desmodora bullata
                      Desmodora cincta
                      Desmodora communis
                      Desmodora conica
                      Desmodora coniseta
                      Desmodora ditlevseni
                      Desmodora hirsuta
                      Desmodora intermedia
                      Desmodora longiseta
                      Desmodora mediterranea
                      Desmodora microchaeta
                      Desmodora microchaetoides
                      Desmodora nybellini
                      Desmodora papillata
                      Desmodora polychaeta
                      Desmodora pontica
                      Desmodora porifera
                      Desmodora poseidoni
                      Desmodora roscoffiensis
                      Desmodora sanguinea
                      Desmodora scaldensis
                      Desmodora septentrionalis
                      Desmodora sphaerica
                      Desmodora tenuicauda
                      Desmodora tenuidentata
                      Desmodora tenuispiculum
                      Desmodora varioannulata
                      Desmodora schulzi
                      Desmodora stateni
                        Desmodora stateni aberrans
                      Desmodora campbelli
                      Desmodora australis
                      Desmodora odhneri
                      Desmodora pararotundicapitata
                      Desmodora cephalata
                      Desmodora reducta
                      Desmodora cephalia
                      Desmodora dimorpha
                      Desmodora striatocephala
                      Desmodora inflexa
                  Metadesmodora
                  Paradesmodora
                  Molgolaimus
                  Chromaspirina
                  Metachromadora
                  Spirinia
                  Leptonemella
                  Parallelocoilas
                  Pseudodesmodora
                  Psammonema
                  Catanema
                Molgolaiminae
                Pseudonchinae
                Spiriniinae
                Stilbonematinae
                Parathalassoalaimus
                Xenonema
                Perspiria
              Draconematidae
              Epsilonematidae
            Microlaimoidea
        Desmoscolecida
        Plectida
      Enoplia
      Adenophorea incertae sedis
      Mermithida
    Secernentea
    Nematoda incertae sedis
  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
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera