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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
          Aponchiidae
          Fusivermidae
          Linhomoeina
            Siphonolaimoidea
              Linhomoeidae
                Desmolaiminae
                  Anticyathus
                  Desmolaimus
                  Megadesmolaimus
                  Metalinhomoeus
                    Metalinhomoeus biratus
                    Metalinhomoeus breviseta
                    Metalinhomoeus effilatus
                    Metalinhomoeus filicaudatus
                    Metalinhomoeus filiformis
                    Metalinhomoeus flagellicaudatus
                    Metalinhomoeus gracilis
                    Metalinhomoeus longiseta
                    Metalinhomoeus maroeyensis
                    Metalinhomoeus microsetosus
                    Metalinhomoeus musaecauda
                    Metalinhomoeus paratypicus
                    Metalinhomoeus pareffilatus
                    Metalinhomoeus parvasetosus
                    Metalinhomoeus tenuicaudatus
                    Metalinhomoeus tristis
                    Metalinhomoeus typicus
                        Metalinhomoeus typicus tenuicaudatus
                    Metalinhomoeus zosterae
                    Metalinhomoeus setosus
                    Metalinhomoeus biformis
                    Metalinhomoeus retrosetosus
                  Prosphaerolaimus
                Eleutherolaiminae
                Linhomoeidae incertae sedis
                Linhomoeinae
                Boreomicrolaimoides
                Dentatonema
                Heterocyatholaimus
                Sarsonia
                Terschellingia
                Eleutherolaimus
                Parapomponema
                Micracanthonchus
                Desmolaimoides
                Metalinchomoeus
              Siphonolaimidae
          Monhysterina
        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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