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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
        Desmoscolecida
          Desmoscolecina
            Desmoscolecoidea
              Desmoscolecidae
                  Desmoscolecinae
                  Greeffiellinae
                  Desmoscolex
                  Quadricoma
                  Tricoma
                    Tricoma adelpha
                    Tricoma bacescui
                    Tricoma bergensis
                    Tricoma brevirostris
                    Tricoma cincta
                    Tricoma elongata
                    Tricoma islandica
                    Tricoma litoralis
                    Tricoma longirostris
                    Tricoma maxima
                    Tricoma nematoides
                    Tricoma norvegica
                    Tricoma pellucida
                    Tricoma platycephala
                    Tricoma polydesma
                    Tricoma profunda
                    Tricoma septuaginta
                    Tricoma steineri
                    Tricoma strandi
                    Tricoma suecica
                    Tricoma suilla
                    Tricoma globulosa
                    Tricoma lobata
                    Tricoma corsicana
                    Tricoma duopapillata
                    Tricoma latispicula
                    Tricoma pygmaea
                    Tricoma setosa
                    Tricoma tripapillata
                    Tricoma vincxae
                    Tricoma apophysis
                    Tricoma bathycola
              Meyliidae
        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
Plantae
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Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
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