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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
              Anomopera
              Eugyra
              Eugyrioides
              Gamaster
              Molgula
              Molguloides
              Pareugyrioides
              Protomolgula
              Minipera
              Rhizomolgula
              Bostrichobranchus
              Anurella
              Ascopera
              Astropera
              Bostricobranchus
              Caesira
                Caesira ampulloides
                Caesira apoploa
                Caesira arctica
                Caesira arenata
                Caesira bacca
                Caesira bathybia
                Caesira birulai
                Caesira canadensis
                Caesira celata
                Caesira citrina
                Caesira concomitans
                Caesira confluxa
                Caesira cooperi
                Caesira crystallina
                Caesira enodis
                Caesira eugyroides
                Caesira euprocta
                Caesira ficus
                Caesira filholi
                Caesira forbesi
                Caesira georgiana
                Caesira glomerata
                Caesira godeffroyi
                Caesira hecateia
                Caesira hodgsoni
                Caesira immunda
                Caesira impura
                Caesira intumescens
                Caesira kiaeri
                Caesira littoralis
                Caesira lutulenta
                Caesira manhattensis
                Caesira martensi
                Caesira maxima
                Caesira mortoni
                Caesira nana
                Caesira novaeselandiae
                Caesira occidentalis
                Caesira occulta
                Caesira pacifica
                Caesira pannosa
                Caesira papillosa
                Caesira parasitica
                Caesira pedunculata
                Caesira producta
                Caesira psammophora
                Caesira pugetiensis
                Caesira pulchra
                Caesira pyriformis
                Caesira regularis
                Caesira retortiformis
                Caesira robusta
                Caesira romeri
                Caesira septentrionalis
                Caesira singularis
                Caesira siphonalis
                Caesira sordida
                Caesira tenax
                Caesira verrilli
                Caesira vitrea
                Caesira wagneri
                Caesira pellucida
                Caesira singulare
              Ctenicella
              Cystingia
              Eugyriopsis
              Euritteria
              Fungulus
              Gymnocystis
              Lithonephria
              Lithonephrya
              Meristocarpus
              Molgulina
              Namiella
              Paraeugyrioides
              Paraeugyroides
              Paramolgula
              Pera
              Stomatropa
              Xenomolgula
          Pyuridae
          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
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