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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
  Annelida
  Nemertina
  Arthropoda
  Ctenophora
  Cnidaria
  Sipuncula
  Echiura
  Pogonophora
  Entoprocta
  Tardigrada
  Phoronida
  Brachiopoda
  Echinodermata
  Hemichordata
  Chordata
    Urochordata
    Cephalochordata
    Vertebrata
    Tunicata
      Ascidiacea
        Aplousobranchia
        Phlebobranchia
        Stolidobranchia
          Molgulidae
          Pyuridae
              Bathypyura
              Boltenia
              Bolteniopsis
              Cratostigma
              Culeolus
              Halocynthia
              Heterostigma
              Microcosmus
              Pyura
              Bathypera
              Hartmeyeria
              Cynthia
              Herdmania
                Herdmania momus
                Herdmania colona
                Herdmania coutieri
                Herdmania fimbriae
                Herdmania grandis
                Herdmania japonica
                Herdmania kiiensis
                Herdmania mauritiana
                Herdmania mentula
                Herdmania mirabilis
                Herdmania pallida
                Herdmania pennata
                Herdmania polyducta
                Herdmania subpallida
                Herdmania inflata
                Herdmania armata
                Herdmania bostrichobranchus
                Herdmania claviformis
                Herdmania contorta
                Herdmania curvata
                Herdmania insolita
                Herdmania vasculosa
              Claudeuns
              Ctenicella
              Ctenyura
              Cynthie
              Cynthiopsis
              Forbesella
              Halomolgula
              Hemistyela
              Holocynthia
              Hyalocynthia
              Liouvillea
              Paraculeolus
              Paracynthia
              Podocynthia
              Pyurella
              Pyuropsis
              Tethyum
              Claudenus
          Styelidae
          Hexacrobylidae
      Larvacea
      Sorberacea
      Thaliacea
      Appendicularia
  Gastrotricha
  Chaetognatha
  Ectoprocta
  Mesozoa
  Rotifera
  Gnathostomulida
  Acanthocephala
  Cycliophora
  Cephalorhyncha
  Placozoa
  Bryozoa
  Myxozoa
  Sipunculida
  Pentastomida
  Nemertini
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera