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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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Animalia
  Mollusca
  Porifera
  Platyhelminthes
  Nematoda
  Annelida
  Nemertina
  Arthropoda
  Ctenophora
  Cnidaria
    Anthozoa
    Hydrozoa
      Hydroidolina
        Siphonophorae
        Anthoathecata
          Capitata
            Candelabridae
            Corymorphidae
            Corynidae
            Tubulariidae
              Dicodonium
              Ectopleura
                  Ectopleura crocea
                  Ectopleura dumortierii
                  Ectopleura minerva
                  Ectopleura petalina
                  Ectopleura sacculifera
                  Ectopleura wrighti
                  Ectopleura larynx
                  Ectopleura americana
                  Ectopleura bethae
                  Ectopleura exxonia
                  Ectopleura grandis
                  Ectopleura guangdongensis
                  Ectopleura indica
                  Ectopleura integra
                  Ectopleura japonica
                  Ectopleura latitaeniata
                  Ectopleura marina
                  Ectopleura mayeri
                  Ectopleura media
                  Ectopleura multicirrata
                  Ectopleura obypa
                  Ectopleura pacifica
                  Ectopleura prolifica
                  Ectopleura radiata
                  Ectopleura ralphi
                  Ectopleura venusta
                  Ectopleura viridis
                  Ectopleura xiamenensis
                  Ectopleura octogona
                  Ectopleura atentaculata
                  Ectopleura apicisacciformis
                  Ectopleura gemmifera
                  Ectopleura xuxuanii
                  Ectopleura elongata
                  Ectopleura triangularis
                  Ectopleura antarctica
                  Ectopleura crassocanalis
              Hybocodon
              Tubularia
              Ralpharia
              Zyzzyzus
              Lobataria
              Acharadria
              Vorticlava
            Myriothelidae
            Cladonematidae
            Margelopsidae
            Porpitidae
            Zancleida
            Tubulariida
            Capitata incertae sedis
            Acaulidae
            Boreohydridae
            Cladocorynidae
            Eleutheriidae
            Euphysidae
            Zancleidae
            Halocorynidae
            Moerisiida
            Moerisiidae
            Paracorynidae
            Pennariidae
            Protohydridae
            Rosalindidae
            Sphaerocorynida
            Sphaerocorynidae
            Velellidae
            Chondrophora
            Halocordylidae
            Milleporidae
            Tricyclusidae
            Asyncorynidae
            Teissieridae
            Solanderiidae
            Boeromedusidae
            Polyorchidae
            Hydrocorynidae
            Zancleopsidae
            Halimedusidae
            Pseudosolanderiidae
            Symplectaneidae
            Ceratelladae
            Tubulariae
            Hybocodonidae
          Filifera
          Anthoathecata incertae sedis
        Leptothecata
        Laingiomedusae
        Anthomedusae
        Leptomedusae
        Gymnoblastea
        Athecata
        Thecata
        Siphonophora
      Trachylinae
      Hydroida
      Leptolinae
    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
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Chromista
Archaea
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