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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.

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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
    Polyplacophora
    Gastropoda
    Scaphopoda
    Bivalvia
    Monoplacophora
    Solenogastres
    Cephalopoda
      Coleoidea
        Decapodiformes
        Octopodiformes
          Vampyromorpha
          Octopoda
            Cirrata
            Incirrata
              Bolitaenoidea
              Octopodoidea
                Octopodidae
                  Bathypolypus
                  Benthoctopus
                      Benthoctopus ergasticus
                      Benthoctopus abruptus
                      Benthoctopus berryi
                      Benthoctopus canthylus
                      Benthoctopus clyderoperi
                      Benthoctopus eureka
                      Benthoctopus fuscus
                      Benthoctopus hokkaidensis
                      Benthoctopus januarii
                      Benthoctopus johnsonianus
                      Benthoctopus levis
                      Benthoctopus macrophallus
                      Benthoctopus magellanicus
                      Benthoctopus normani
                      Benthoctopus oregonae
                      Benthoctopus oregonensis
                      Benthoctopus profundorum
                      Benthoctopus pseudonymus
                      Benthoctopus robustus
                      Benthoctopus tangaroa
                      Benthoctopus tegginmathae
                      Benthoctopus thielei
                      Benthoctopus yaquinae
                      Benthoctopus longibrachus
                      Benthoctopus rigbyae
                  Eledone
                  Octopus
                  Pteroctopus
                  Scaeurgus
                  Eledoninae
                  Pareledone
                  Adelieledone
                  Bathypurpurata
                  Megaleledone
                  Praealtus
                  Thaumeledone
                  Ameloctopus
                  Amphioctopus
                  Bentheledone
                  Danoctopus
                  Enteroctopus
                  Euaxoctopus
                  Grimpella
                  Hapalochlaena
                  Pinnoctopus
                  Robsonella
                  Teretoctopus
                  Tetracheledone
                  Thaumoctopus
                  Velodona
                  Vosseledone
                  Vulcanoctopus
                  Abdopus
                Vitreledonellidae
              Argonautoidea
    Placophora
    Aculifera
    Conchifera
    Pelecypoda
    Caudofoveata
    Lamellibranchiata
    Conchifera
  Porifera
  Platyhelminthes
  Nematoda
  Annelida
  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
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Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
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