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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
    Crinozoa
    Asterozoa
      Asteroidea
        Velatida
        Platyasterida
        Concentricycloidea
        Euclasteroidea
        Forcipulatacea
          Brisingida
            Brisingidae
              Brisinga
                  Brisinga coronata
                  Brisinga edwardsi
                  Brisinga elegans
                  Brisinga elegans
                  Brisinga endecacnemos
                  Brisinga hirsuta
                  Brisinga robusta
                  Brisinga semicoronata
                  Brisinga mediterranea
                  Brisinga costata
                  Brisinga cricophora
                  Brisinga distincta
                  Brisinga alberti
                  Brisinga analoga
                  Brisinga andamanica
                  Brisinga bengalensis
                  Brisinga chathamica
                  Brisinga eucoryne
                  Brisinga evermanni
                  Brisinga gunnii
                  Brisinga insularum
                  Brisinga panopla
                  Brisinga parallela
                  Brisinga synaptoma
                  Brisinga tasmani
                  Brisinga trachydisca
                  Brisinga variispina
                  Brisinga acanthogenys
                  Brisinga americana
                  Brisinga armillata
                  Brisinga exilis
                  Brisinga fragilis
                  Brisinga gracilis
                  Brisinga membranacea
                  Brisinga mimica
                  Brisinga moluccana
                  Brisinga multicostata
                  Brisinga panamensis
                  Brisinga placoderma
                  Brisinga robusta
                  Brisinga verticellata
                  Brisinga tenella
              Brisingella
              Novodinia
              Odinia
              Odinella
              Brisingenes
              Midgardia
              Stegnobrisinga
              Brisingaster
              Astrostephane
              Craterobrisinga
              Astrolirus
              Gymnobrisinga
              Hymenodiscus
              Parabrisinga
            Freyellidae
          Forcipulatida
        Valvatacea
        Spinulosacea
      Ophiuroidea
      Stelleroidea
    Echinozoa
  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