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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
    Calcarea
    Hexactinellida
      Hexasterophora
        Hexactinosa
        Lyssacinosa
        Aulocalycoida
        Fieldingida
        Hexactinosida
        Lychniscosida
        Lyssacinosida
          Caulophacidae
          Euplectellidae
            Bolosominae
            Corbitellinae
            Euplectellinae
              Euplectella
                Euplectella brevis
                Euplectella suberea
                Euplectella aspera
                Euplectella aspergillum
                    Euplectella aspergillum regalis
                    Euplectella aspergillum aspergillum
                    Euplectella aspergillum indonesicum
                    Euplectella aspergillum australicum
                Euplectella crassistellata
                Euplectella cucumer
                Euplectella curvistellata
                Euplectella imperialis
                Euplectella jovis
                Euplectella marshalli
                Euplectella nobilis
                Euplectella nodosa
                Euplectella oweni
                Euplectella regalis
                Euplectella simplex
                Euplectella timorensis
                Euplectella gibbsa
                Euplectella paratetractina
                Euplectella plumosum
                Euplectella mammillaris
                Euplectella robusta
              Malacosaccus
              Acoelocalyx
              Chaunangium
              Docosaccus
              Holascus
              Placopegma
              Holascella
              Placoplegma
          Leucopsacidae
          Rossellidae
          Lyssacinosida incertae sedis
          Placoplegmidae
          Alcyoncellidae
          Sympagellidae
        Lychniscosa
      Amphidiscophora
    Homoscleromorpha
    Porifera incertae sedis
    Demospongiae
    Sclerospongiae
    Hyalospongiae
    Calcispongiae
  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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