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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
            Microlaimoidea
              Microlaimidae
                  Aponema
                  Crassolaimus
                  Ixonema
                  Microlaimus
                    Microlaimus acinaces
                    Microlaimus acuticaudatus
                    Microlaimus allgeni
                    Microlaimus arenicola
                    Microlaimus borealis
                    Microlaimus citrus
                    Microlaimus compridus
                    Microlaimus conothelis
                    Microlaimus crassiceps
                    Microlaimus criminalis
                    Microlaimus cuanensis
                    Microlaimus cyatholaimoides
                    Microlaimus dentatus
                    Microlaimus donsi
                    Microlaimus globiceps
                    Microlaimus honestoides
                    Microlaimus honestus
                    Microlaimus inermis
                    Microlaimus lazonus
                    Microlaimus macrocirculus
                    Microlaimus marinus
                    Microlaimus microseta
                    Microlaimus monstrosus
                    Microlaimus ostracion
                    Microlaimus paraborealis
                    Microlaimus parahonestus
                    Microlaimus punctulatus
                    Microlaimus pygmaeus
                    Microlaimus robustidens
                    Microlaimus spirifer
                    Microlaimus tenuicollis
                    Microlaimus teutonicus
                    Microlaimus texianus
                    Microlaimus turgofrons
                    Microlaimus undulatus
                    Microlaimus zosterae
                    Microlaimus conspicuus
                    Microlaimus annelisae
                    Microlaimus pinguis
                    Microlaimus problematicus
                    Microlaimus tenuispiculum
                    Microlaimus cochleatus
                    Microlaimus dimorphus
                    Microlaimus acicularis
                    Microlaimus abyssalis
                    Microlaimus parviporosus
                  Bolbolaimus
                  Calomicrolaimus
                  Paracothonolaimus
                  Spirobolbolaimus
                  Bathynox
                  Nox
              Monoposthiidae
        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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