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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
    Gastropoda
      Prosobranchia
      Heterobranchia
      Cocculiniformia
      Neritimorpha
      Vetigastropoda
      Apogastropoda
      Caenogastropoda
        Neogastropoda
          Muricoidea
          Cancellarioidea
          Conoidea
          Buccinoidea
          Volutoidea
          Olivoidea
            Olividae
                Amalda
                  Amalda borshengi
                  Amalda josecarlosi
                  Amalda australis
                  Amalda bathamae
                  Amalda benthicola
                  Amalda depressa
                  Amalda edithae
                  Amalda festiva
                  Amalda marginata
                  Amalda mucronata
                  Amalda northlandica
                  Amalda novaezelandiae
                  Amalda oblonga
                  Amalda petterdi
                  Amalda raoulensis
                  Amalda rubrofasciata
                  Amalda southlandica
                  Amalda allaryi
                  Amalda ampla
                  Amalda angustata
                  Amalda aureomarginata
                  Amalda bellonarum
                  Amalda booleyi
                  Amalda bullioides
                  Amalda callifera
                  Amalda contusa
                  Amalda coriolis
                  Amalda elongata
                  Amalda errorum
                  Amalda fasciata
                  Amalda fuscolingua
                  Amalda hilgendorfi
                  Amalda jenneri
                  Amalda lemaitrei
                  Amalda montrouzieri
                  Amalda maritzae
                  Amalda obesa
                  Amalda obtusa
                  Amalda optima
                  Amalda reevei
                  Amalda similis
                  Amalda trachyzonus
                  Amalda vernedei
                  Amalda acuta
                  Amalda albanyensis
                  Amalda albicallosa
                  Amalda aureus
                  Amalda beachportensis
                  Amalda bullosa
                  Amalda coccinata
                  Amalda coenobium
                  Amalda colemani
                  Amalda concinna
                  Amalda crosnieri
                  Amalda cupedula
                  Amalda danilai
                  Amalda dimidiata
                  Amalda dyspetes
                  Amalda edgariana
                  Amalda hinomotoensis
                  Amalda lactea
                  Amalda lanceolata
                  Amalda lindae
                  Amalda lineata
                  Amalda lochii
                  Amalda mamillata
                  Amalda monilifera
                  Amalda nitidanosum
                  Amalda otohime
                  Amalda pacei
                  Amalda pinguis
                  Amalda ponderi
                  Amalda procerum
                  Amalda pullarium
                  Amalda roscoae
                  Amalda rottnestensis
                  Amalda rubiginosa
                  Amalda scopuloceti
                  Amalda siberutensis
                  Amalda sidneyensis
                  Amalda sinensis
                  Amalda tankervillei
                  Amalda telaaraneae
                  Amalda tenuis
                  Amalda tindalli
                  Amalda trippneri
                  Amalda turgida
                  Amalda utopica
                  Amalda venezuela
                  Amalda virgineus
                  Amalda whatmoughi
                  Amalda abyssicola
                  Amalda aureocallosa
                  Amalda sibuatae
                  Amalda tankervillii
                  Amalda albocallosa
                  Amalda virginea
                  Amalda procera
                Olivinae
                Ancillariinae
                Spirancilla
            Olivellidae
          Pseudolivoidea
        Sorbeoconcha
        [unassigned] Caenogastropoda
        Littorinimorpha
        Stenoglossa
        Hypsogastropoda
      Patellogastropoda
    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
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera