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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
      Octocorallia
        Alcyonacea
        Gorgonacea
        Pennatulacea
          Subsessiliflorae
            Halipteridae
            Pennatulidae
              Crassophyllum
              Gyrophyllum
              Pennatula
              Pteroeides
                  Pteroeides lusitanicum
                  Pteroeides morbusus
                  Pteroeides spinosum
                  Pteroeides tenerum
                  Pteroeides isosceles
                  Pteroeides acutum
                  Pteroeides bankanense
                  Pteroeides bestae
                  Pteroeides breviradiatum
                  Pteroeides caledonicum
                  Pteroeides carnosum
                  Pteroeides crossieri
                  Pteroeides densum
                  Pteroeides dofleini
                  Pteroeides duebeni
                  Pteroeides durum
                  Pteroeides esperi
                  Pteroeides flexuosum
                  Pteroeides humesi
                  Pteroeides hymenocaulon
                  Pteroeides jungerseni
                  Pteroeides laboutei
                  Pteroeides latissimum
                  Pteroeides malayense
                  Pteroeides oblongum
                  Pteroeides sagamiense
                  Pteroeides sparmanni
                  Pteroeides spicatum
                  Pteroeides timorense
                  Pteroeides triangulum
              Ptilosarcus
              Sarcoptilus
              Graphularia
            Virgulariidae
          Sessiliflorae
      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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