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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.

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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
  Gastrotricha
    Chaetonotoidea
    Macrodasyoidea
    Macrodasyida
    Chaetonotida
      Multitubulatina
      Paucitubulatina
        Chaetonotidae
          Hemichaetonotus
          Chitonodytes
          Pseudichthydium
          Chaetonotinae
            Aspidiophorus
            Chaetonotus
              Chaetonotus apolemnus
              Chaetonotus balticus
              Chaetonotus decipiens
              Chaetonotus littoralis
              Chaetonotus maximus
              Chaetonotus paradoxus
              Chaetonotus parthenopeius
              Chaetonotus parvus
              Chaetonotus somniculosus
              Chaetonotus variosquamatus
              Chaetonotus marinus
              Chaetonotus jucundus
              Chaetonotus annae
              Chaetonotus bogdanovii
              Chaetonotus fencheli
              Chaetonotus furculatus
              Chaetonotus ontariensis
              Chaetonotus schoepferi
              Chaetonotus testiculophorus
              Chaetonotus (Chaetonotus)
                  Chaetonotus (Chaetonotus) aegilonensis
                  Chaetonotus (Chaetonotus) angustus
                  Chaetonotus (Chaetonotus) apechochaetus
                  Chaetonotus (Chaetonotus) condensus
                  Chaetonotus (Chaetonotus) napoleonicus
                  Chaetonotus (Chaetonotus) siciliensis
                  Chaetonotus (Chaetonotus) tempestivus
                  Chaetonotus (Chaetonotus) magnificus
                  Chaetonotus (Chaetonotus) mediterraneus
                  Chaetonotus (Chaetonotus) triacanthus
                  Chaetonotus (Chaetonotus) triradiatus
                  Chaetonotus (Chaetonotus) schoepferae
              Chaetonotus (Hystricochaetonotus)
              Chaetonotus (Marinochaetus)
              Chaetonotus (Schizochaetonotus)
              Chaetonotus fenchelae
              Chaetonotus schoepferae
            Halichaetonotus
            Heterolepidoderma
            Ichthydium
            Lepidodermella
            Caudichthydium
        Xenotrichulidae
        Muselliferidae
  Chaetognatha
  Ectoprocta
  Mesozoa
  Rotifera
  Gnathostomulida
  Acanthocephala
  Cycliophora
  Cephalorhyncha
  Placozoa
  Bryozoa
  Myxozoa
  Sipunculida
  Pentastomida
  Nemertini
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