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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
      Enoplia
        Dorylaimida
        Enoplida
          Enoplina
          Tripyloidina
          Trefusiidae
          Dioctophymina
          Ironina
            Ironoidea
              Ironidae
              Leptosomatidae
              Oxystominidae
                Halalaiminae
                Oxystomininae
                    Litinium
                    Nemanema
                    Oxystomina
                      Oxystomina alpatovi
                      Oxystomina alpha
                      Oxystomina asetosa
                      Oxystomina brevicaudata
                      Oxystomina clavicauda
                      Oxystomina elongata
                      Oxystomina filicauda
                      Oxystomina islandica
                      Oxystomina nidrosiensis
                      Oxystomina novozemelica
                      Oxystomina nuda
                      Oxystomina oxycaudata
                      Oxystomina pulchella
                      Oxystomina tenuis
                      Oxystomina unguiculata
                    Thalassoalaimus
                    Wieseria
                    Oxystomatina
                    Thalassolaimus
                Paroxystomininae
          Trichinellina
        Trefusiida
      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
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
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