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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
    Calcarea
    Hexactinellida
    Homoscleromorpha
    Porifera incertae sedis
    Demospongiae
      Ceractinomorpha
      Tetractinomorpha
      Dendroceratida
      Dictyoceratida
      Halichondrida
      Halisarcida
      Haplosclerida
        Haplosclerina
          Callyspongiidae
          Chalinidae
          Niphatidae
            Cribrochalina
            Gelliodes
            Hemigellius
            Pachychalina
            Amphimedon
            Dasychalina
            Haliclonissa
            Microxina
            Niphates
                Niphates alba
                Niphates amorpha
                Niphates brevispiculifera
                Niphates caycedoi
                Niphates digitalis
                Niphates erecta
                Niphates furcata
                Niphates hispida
                Niphates lunisimilis
                Niphates lutea
                Niphates mirabilis
                Niphates nitida
                Niphates obtusispiculifera
                Niphates olemda
                Niphates plumosa
                Niphates recondita
                Niphates rowi
                Niphates aga
                Niphates thomasiana
                Niphates venosa
                Niphates cavernosa
                Niphates toxifera
            Sigmaxinyssa
            Calyxadocia
            Hemihaliclona
            Plumocolumetta
          Haliclonidae
          Adociidae
          Renierinae
          Gelliadae
          Renieridae
          Gelliidae
          Gelliinae
          Cavochalinidae
          Tubulodigitidae
        Petrosina
      Poecilosclerida
      Verongida
      Astrophorida
      Chondrosida
      Hadromerida
      'Lithistida'
      Spirophorida
      Petrosida
      Nepheliospongida
      Choristida
      Axinellida
      Agelasida
      Demospongiae incertae sedis
      Verticillitida
      Keratosa
      Myxospongiae
      Gummineae
      Verongimorpha
      Tetractinellida
      Democlavia
    Sclerospongiae
    Hyalospongiae
    Calcispongiae
  Platyhelminthes
  Nematoda
  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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