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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
  Sipuncula
  Echiura
  Pogonophora
  Entoprocta
  Tardigrada
  Phoronida
  Brachiopoda
  Echinodermata
  Hemichordata
  Chordata
    Urochordata
    Cephalochordata
    Vertebrata
      Gnathostomata
        Tetrapoda
          Aves
            Anseriformes
            Charadriiformes
              Alcidae
              Laridae
                Larus
                    Larus argentatus
                    Larus audouinii
                    Larus cachinnans
                    Larus canus
                    Larus fuscus
                    Larus genei
                    Larus glaucoides
                    Larus hyperboreus
                    Larus marinus
                    Larus melanocephalus
                    Larus minutus
                    Larus ridibundus
                    Larus rossii
                    Larus sabini
                    Larus tridactyla
                    Larus delawarensis
                    Larus atricilla
                    Larus philadelphia
                    Larus pipixcan
                    Larus dominicanus
                    Larus hemprichii
                    Larus leucophthalmus
                    Larus ichthyaetus
                    Larus cirrocephalus
                    Larus scopulinus
                    Larus scoresbii
                    Larus maculipennis
                    Larus bulleri
                    Larus belcheri
                    Larus modestus
                    Larus michahellis
                    Larus armenicus
                    Larus atlanticus
                    Larus brunnicephalus
                    Larus californicus
                    Larus crassirostris
                    Larus fuliginosus
                    Larus furcatus
                    Larus glaucescens
                    Larus hartlaubi
                    Larus heermanni
                    Larus livens
                    Larus novaehollandiae
                      Larus novaehollandiae forsteri
                      Larus novaehollandiae novaehollandiae
                    Larus occidentalis
                    Larus pacificus
                    Larus relictus
                    Larus saundersi
                    Larus schistisagus
                    Larus serranus
                    Larus thayeri
                    Larus rosea
                    Larus icthyaetus
                    Larus heuglini
                    Larus smithsonianus
                    Larus vegae
                Pagophila
                Rhodostethia
                Rissa
                Xema
                Gygis
                Larosterna
                Leucophaeus
                Phaetusa
                Procelsterna
                Creagrus
                Chroicocephalus
                Hydrocoloeus
              Phalaropodidae
              Stercorariidae
              Sternidae
            Pelecaniformes
            Podicipediformes
            Procellariiformes
          Mammalia
          Reptilia
        Pisces
      Agnatha
    Tunicata
  Gastrotricha
  Chaetognatha
  Ectoprocta
  Mesozoa
  Rotifera
  Gnathostomulida
  Acanthocephala
  Cycliophora
  Cephalorhyncha
  Placozoa
  Bryozoa
  Myxozoa
  Sipunculida
  Pentastomida
  Nemertini
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera