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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
    Clitellata
      Oligochaeta
      Hirudinea
        Euhirudinea
          Rhynchobdellida
            Piscicolidae
                Arctobdella
                Austrobdella
                Branchellion
                Brumptiana
                Calliobdella
                Crangonobdella
                Ganymedebdella
                Hemibdella
                Janusion
                Johanssonia
                Malmiana
                Mysidobdella
                Notostomobdella
                Notostomum
                Oceanobdella
                Oxytonostoma
                Piscicola
                Platybdella
                Pontobdella
                Pontobdellina
                Pterobdella
                Trachelobdella
                Antarcticobdella
                Bathybdella
                Bdellamaris
                Beringobdella
                Carcinobdella
                Caspiobdella
                Cottobdella
                Cryobdella
                Cryobdellina
                Cystobranchus
                Galatheabdella
                Glyptonotobdella
                Levinsenia
                Marsipobdella
                Megaliobdella
                Moorebdellina
                Notobdella
                Nototheniobdella
                Orientobdella
                Ostreobdella
                Phyllobdellina
                Pleurobdella
                Richardsonobdella
                Stibarobdella
                Trachelobdellina
                Trulliobdella
                Zeylanicobdella
                  Zeylanicobdella arugamensis
                Hirudo
            Ozobranchidae
  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