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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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Animalia
  Mollusca
  Porifera
  Platyhelminthes
  Nematoda
  Annelida
  Nemertina
  Arthropoda
  Ctenophora
  Cnidaria
  Sipuncula
  Echiura
  Pogonophora
  Entoprocta
  Tardigrada
  Phoronida
  Brachiopoda
  Echinodermata
  Hemichordata
  Chordata
    Urochordata
    Cephalochordata
    Vertebrata
      Gnathostomata
        Tetrapoda
        Pisces
          Elasmobranchii
          Actinopterygii
            Acipenseriformes
            Elopiformes
            Notacanthiformes
            Anguilliformes
            Saccopharyngiformes
            Clupeiformes
            Osmeriformes
            Salmoniformes
            Stomiiformes
            Ateleopodiformes
            Aulopiformes
            Myctophiformes
            Lampriformes
            Polymixiiformes
            Gadiformes
            Ophidiiformes
            Batrachoidiformes
            Lophiiformes
            Gobiesociformes
            Atheriniformes
            Cyprinodontiformes
            Beloniformes
            Stephanoberyciformes
            Beryciformes
            Cetomimiformes
            Gasterosteiformes
            Syngnathiformes
            Scorpaeniformes
              Agonidae
              Cottidae
              Cyclopteridae
              Dactylopteridae
              Peristediidae
              Platycephalidae
              Psychrolutidae
              Scorpaenidae
              Sebastidae
                Sebastinae
                  Helicolenus
                  Sebastes
                      Sebastes fasciatus
                      Sebastes marinus
                      Sebastes mentella
                      Sebastes viviparus
                      Sebastes norvegicus
                      Sebastes capensis
                      Sebastes chrysomelas
                      Sebastes alutus
                      Sebastes aleutianus
                      Sebastes atrovirens
                      Sebastes auriculatus
                      Sebastes aurora
                      Sebastes babcocki
                      Sebastes baramenuke
                      Sebastes borealis
                      Sebastes brevispinis
                      Sebastes carnatus
                      Sebastes caurinus
                      Sebastes chlorostictus
                      Sebastes ciliatus
                      Sebastes constellatus
                      Sebastes cortezi
                      Sebastes crameri
                      Sebastes dallii
                      Sebastes diploproa
                      Sebastes elongatus
                      Sebastes emphaeus
                      Sebastes ensifer
                      Sebastes entomelas
                      Sebastes eos
                      Sebastes exsul
                      Sebastes flammeus
                      Sebastes flavidus
                      Sebastes gilli
                      Sebastes glaucus
                      Sebastes goodei
                      Sebastes helvomaculatus
                      Sebastes hopkinsi
                      Sebastes hubbsi
                      Sebastes ijimae
                      Sebastes inermis
                      Sebastes iracundus
                      Sebastes itinus
                      Sebastes jordani
                      Sebastes joyneri
                      Sebastes kawaradae
                      Sebastes kiyomatsui
                      Sebastes koreanus
                      Sebastes lentiginosus
                      Sebastes levis
                      Sebastes longispinis
                      Sebastes macdonaldi
                      Sebastes maliger
                      Sebastes matsubarae
                      Sebastes melanops
                      Sebastes melanosema
                      Sebastes melanostomus
                      Sebastes miniatus
                      Sebastes minor
                      Sebastes moseri
                      Sebastes mystinus
                      Sebastes nebulosus
                      Sebastes nigrocinctus
                      Sebastes nivosus
                      Sebastes notius
                      Sebastes oblongus
                      Sebastes oculatus
                      Sebastes ovalis
                      Sebastes owstoni
                      Sebastes paucispinis
                      Sebastes peduncularis
                      Sebastes phillipsi
                      Sebastes pinniger
                      Sebastes polyspinis
                      Sebastes proriger
                      Sebastes rastrelliger
                      Sebastes reedi
                      Sebastes rosaceus
                      Sebastes rosenblatti
                      Sebastes ruber
                      Sebastes ruberrimus
                      Sebastes rubrivinctus
                      Sebastes rufinanus
                      Sebastes rufus
                      Sebastes saxicola
                      Sebastes schlegelii
                      Sebastes scythropus
                      Sebastes semicinctus
                      Sebastes serranoides
                      Sebastes serriceps
                      Sebastes simulator
                      Sebastes sinensis
                      Sebastes spinorbis
                      Sebastes steindachneri
                      Sebastes swifti
                      Sebastes taczanowskii
                      Sebastes thompsoni
                      Sebastes trivittatus
                      Sebastes umbrosus
                      Sebastes variegatus
                      Sebastes varispinis
                      Sebastes ventricosus
                      Sebastes vulpes
                      Sebastes wakiyai
                      Sebastes wilsoni
                      Sebastes zacentrus
                      Sebastes zonatus
                      Sebastes pachycephalus
                      Sebastes variabilis
                  Hozukius
                  Sebastiscus
                  Acutomentum
                  Pteropodus
                  Sebastodes
                  Sebastosomus
                  Sebasticus
                  Sebastostomus
                Sebastolobinae
              Setarchidae
              Triglidae
              Liparidae
            Pleuronectiformes
            Tetraodontiformes
            Zeiformes
            Perciformes
            Mugiliformes
          Holocephali
      Agnatha
    Tunicata
  Gastrotricha
  Chaetognatha
  Ectoprocta
  Mesozoa
  Rotifera
  Gnathostomulida
  Acanthocephala
  Cycliophora
  Cephalorhyncha
  Placozoa
  Bryozoa
  Myxozoa
  Sipunculida
  Pentastomida
  Nemertini
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Fungi
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Bacteria
Chromista
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