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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
    Polyplacophora
      Neoloricata
        Lepidopleurida
        Chitonida
          Ischnochitonina
          Acanthochitonina
          Chitonina
            Chitonoidea
              Chitonidae
              Ischnochitonidae
              Callochitonidae
              Callistoplacidae
              Chaetopleuridae
                Chaetopleura
                    Chaetopleura (Pallochiton)
                    Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura)
                    Chaetopleura angolensis
                    Chaetopleura benaventei
                    Chaetopleura biarmata
                    Chaetopleura brucei
                    Chaetopleura fernandensis
                    Chaetopleura pomarium
                    Chaetopleura roddae
                    Chaetopleura shyana
                    Chaetopleura staphylophera
                    Chaetopleura unilineata
                    Chaetopleura gemma
                    Chaetopleura chelazziana
                    Chaetopleura sowerbiana
                    Chaetopleura spinulosa
                    Chaetopleura euryplax
                    Chaetopleura mixta
                Chaetopleurinae
                Dinoplax
                Pallochiton
              Loricidae
              Acanthopleuridae
            Schizochitonoidea
    Gastropoda
    Scaphopoda
    Bivalvia
    Monoplacophora
    Solenogastres
    Cephalopoda
    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
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