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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
    Secernentea
      Tylenchida
      Rhabditida
      Ascaridida
        Ascaridoidea
          Anisakidae
          Acanthocheilidae
          Ascarididae
            Ascaridinae
                Ascaris
                  Ascaris affinis
                  Ascaris alepocephali
                  Ascaris appendiculata
                  Ascaris argentinae
                  Ascaris aspidophori
                  Ascaris atherinae
                  Ascaris belonesvulgaris
                  Ascaris boopis
                  Ascaris bramae
                  Ascaris centrisci
                  Ascaris clupeae
                  Ascaris cyclopteri
                  Ascaris cynaedi
                  Ascaris digitata
                  Ascaris engraulidis
                  Ascaris filariformis
                  Ascaris gadiminuti
                  Ascaris hippocampi
                  Ascaris hirsuta
                  Ascaris incrassata
                  Ascaris labrilusci
                  Ascaris linguatulae
                  Ascaris longestriata
                  Ascaris lyrae
                  Ascaris macrolabium
                  Ascaris maena
                  Ascaris microcerca
                  Ascaris minuta
                  Ascaris molvae
                  Ascaris mulli
                  Ascaris novaculae
                  Ascaris ophidiibarbati
                  Ascaris ophidiiimberbis
                  Ascaris pachyderma
                  Ascaris phycis
                  Ascaris prionodora
                  Ascaris rajae
                  Ascaris rostrata
                  Ascaris sauri
                  Ascaris sciaenae
                  Ascaris scombrorum
                  Ascaris scorpaenae
                  Ascaris scorpaenaecirrhosae
                  Ascaris sparoidum
                  Ascaris spicrae
                  Ascaris stictodora
                  Ascaris succisa
                  Ascaris tenuissima
                  Ascaris ungulata
                  Ascaris uranoscopi
                  Ascaris wedli
                  Ascaris adunca
                  Ascaris decipiens
            Toxocarinae
        Seuratoidea
        Cosmocercoidea
        Heterocheilidae
      Strongylida
      Spirurida
      Diplogasterida
      Aphelenchida
    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
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Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
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