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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
    Anthozoa
      Hexacorallia
        Actiniaria
        Ceriantharia
        Corallimorpharia
        Scleractinia
        Zoanthidea
        Antipatharia
          Antipathidae
            Antipathes
            Stichopathes
                Stichopathes abyssicola
                Stichopathes dissimilis
                Stichopathes euoplos
                Stichopathes flagellum
                Stichopathes gracilis
                Stichopathes richardi
                Stichopathes robusta
                Stichopathes aggregata
                Stichopathes alcocki
                Stichopathes bispinosa
                Stichopathes bournei
                Stichopathes ceylonensis
                Stichopathes contorta
                Stichopathes echinulata
                Stichopathes eustropha
                Stichopathes filiformis
                Stichopathes indica
                Stichopathes japonica
                Stichopathes longispina
                Stichopathes lutkeni
                Stichopathes maldivensis
                Stichopathes occidentalis
                Stichopathes papillosa
                Stichopathes paucispina
                Stichopathes pourtalesi
                Stichopathes regularis
                Stichopathes saccula
                Stichopathes semiglabra
                Stichopathes setacea
                Stichopathes seychellensis
                Stichopathes solorensis
                Stichopathes spiessi
                Stichopathes spinosa
                Stichopathes variabilis
                Stichopathes gravieri
            Allopathes
            Arachnopathes
            Hillopathes
            Pteropathes
          Cladopathidae
        Ceriantipatharia
        Ptychodactiaria
      Octocorallia
      Zoantharia
    Hydrozoa
    Cnidaria incertae sedis
    Cubozoa
    Scyphozoa
    Staurozoa
  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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