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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
          Chromadorina
            Chromadoroidea
              Chromadoridae
              Cyatholaimidae
                Cyatholaimidae incertae sedis
                Cyatholaiminae
                  Cyatholaimus
                    Cyatholaimus canariensis
                    Cyatholaimus gracilis
                    Cyatholaimus microsetosus
                    Cyatholaimus minutus
                    Cyatholaimus nordgaardi
                    Cyatholaimus ocellatus
                    Cyatholaimus papilliferus
                    Cyatholaimus paucispira
                    Cyatholaimus prinzi
                    Cyatholaimus savaljevi
                    Cyatholaimus scarratti
                    Cyatholaimus simulatus
                    Cyatholaimus punctatus
                    Cyatholaimus caecus
                        Cyatholaimus caecus ophtalmophorus
                    Cyatholaimus heterodontus
                    Cyatholaimus thaumasius
                    Cyatholaimus cirolanae
                  Longicyatholaimus
                  Marylynnia
                  Metacyatholaimus
                  Paralongicyatholaimus
                  Praeacanthonchus
                  Phyllolaimus
                  Praecanthonchus
                Pomponematinae
                Raracanthonchinae
                Achromadora
              Ethmolaimidae
              Neotonchidae
              Selachinematidae
              Benthimermithidae
          Leptolaimina
        Monhysterida
        Araeolaimida
        Desmodorida
        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
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