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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
    Polychaeta
      Canalipalpata
        Spionida
          Spioniformia
          Chaetopteriformia
          Chaetopteridae
            Chaetopterus
                Chaetopterus norvegicus
                Chaetopterus sarsii
                Chaetopterus variopedatus
                Chaetopterus cautus
                Chaetopterus longipes
                Chaetopterus afer
                Chaetopterus antarcticus
                Chaetopterus appendiculatus
                Chaetopterus australis
                Chaetopterus brevis
                Chaetopterus capensis
                Chaetopterus crosslandi
                Chaetopterus hamatus
                Chaetopterus insignis
                Chaetopterus kagosimensis
                Chaetopterus leuckarti
                Chaetopterus longimanus
                Chaetopterus luteus
                Chaetopterus macropus
                Chaetopterus pergamentaceus
                Chaetopterus quatrefagesii
                Chaetopterus takahashii
                Chaetopterus valencinii
                Chaetopterus sarsi
                Chaetopterus galapagensis
                Chaetopterus charlesdarwinii
                Chaetopterus aduncus
                Chaetopterus pugaporcinus
                Chaetopterus pacificus
                Chaetopterus japonicus
                Chaetopterus izuensis
                Chaetopterus gregarius
            Mesochaetopterus
            Phyllochaetopreus
            Phyllochaetopterus
            Spiochaetopterus
            Tricoelia
            Telepsavus
            Sasekumaria
            Leptochaetopterus
            Mesotrocha
            Ranzania
            Leptochaetopterus
            Ranzanides
        Terebellida
        Sabellida
      Polychaeta fossils incertae sedis
    Clitellata
  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
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera