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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
    Polychaeta
      Canalipalpata
        Spionida
          Spioniformia
            Apistobranchidae
            Spionidae
              Aonides
              Apoprionospio
              Atherospio
              Aurospio
              Boccardia
              Boccardiella
              Dipolydora
              Dispio
              Laonice
              Malacoceros
              Marenzelleria
              Microspio
              Minuspio
              Paraprionospio
              Polydora
              Prionospio
              Pseudopolydora
              Pygospio
              Scolelepis
              Scolepis
              Spio
                  Spio armata
                  Spio crenaticornis
                  Spio decoratus
                  Spio filicornis
                  Spio goniocephala
                  Spio martinensis
                  Spio multioculata
                  Spio decorata
                  Spio mecznikowianus
                  Spio vulgaris
                  Spio fuliginosus
                  Spio limicola
                  Spio pettiboneae
                  Spio setosa
                  Spio thulini
                  Spio obtusa
                  Spio seticornis
                  Spio (Microspio)
                  Spio aequalis
                  Spio bengalensis
                  Spio blakei
                  Spio borealis
                  Spio butleri
                  Spio calcarea
                  Spio celata
                  Spio gorbunovi
                  Spio maciolekae
                  Spio mesnili
                  Spio pacifica
                  Spio punctata
                  Spio quadricornis
                  Spio quadrisetosa
                  Spio readi
                  Spio singularis
                  Spio tridentata
                  Spio tzetlini
                  Spio unidentata
                  Spio arctica
                  Spio malmgreni
                  Spio parva
                  Spio theeli
                  Spio californica
                  Spio nemertinaeformis
                  Spio caudatus
                  Spio acuta
                  Spio atlanticus
                  Spio bombyx
                  Spio gattyi
                  Spio hirsuta
                  Spio inversa
                  Spio laevicornis
                  Spio magnus
                  Spio mimus
                  Spio rathbuni
                  Spio robusta
                  Spio viridis
                  Spio ventilabrum
                  Spio caudatus
                  Spio coccineus
                  Spio cirrata
                  Spio cirrifera
                  Spio arndti
                  Spio symphyta
                  Spio maculata
              Spiophanes
              Streblospio
              Pseudomalacoceros
              Scolecolepis
              Nerine
              Nerinides
              Mesospio
              Nerinopsis
              Pygospiopsis
              Rhynchospio
              Asetocalamyzas
              Anaspio
              Aonidella
              Aonis
              Aonopsis
              Aquilaspio
              Australospio
              Carazziella
              Cheironotus
              Gisela
              Laubieriellus
              Leucodore
              Lindaspio
              Mandane
              Morants
              Orthoprionospio
              Paraboccardia
              Paraspio
              Pasithoe
              Periptyches
              Polybranchia
              Polydorella
              Pseudatherospio
              Pygophyllum
              Scolecolepides
              Spione
              Spionereis
              Tripolydora
              Xandaros
              Amphipolydora
              Aricideopsis
              Colobranchus
              Ctenospio
              Diplotis
              Euspio
              Hekaterobranchus
              Kinbergella
              Leipoceras
              Lidaspio
              Neopygospio
              Perialla
              Pseudonerine
              Pteriptyches
              Spionides
              Spiogalea
            Magelonidae
            Trochochaetidae
            Poecilochaetidae
            Longosomatidae
            Heterospionidae
            Aberrantidae
            Uncispionidae
          Chaetopteriformia
          Chaetopteridae
        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