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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
  Porifera
  Platyhelminthes
  Nematoda
  Annelida
  Nemertina
  Arthropoda
    Crustacea
    Chelicerata
      Arachnida
        Acarina
          Prostigmata
            Pontarachnidae
            Halacaroidea
              Halacaridae
                Acarochelopodia
                Actacarus
                Anomalohalacarus
                Copidognathides
                Copidognathus
                Agaue
                Agauides
                Agauopsis
                Arhodeoporus
                Atelopsalis
                Bathyhalacarus
                Bradyagaue
                Camactognathus
                Coloboceras
                Colobocerasides
                Halacarellus
                Halacaropsis
                Halacarus
                Parhalixodes
                Pelacarus
                Thalassarachna
                Werthella
                Lohmannella
                Scaptognathus
                Isobactrus
                Metarhombognathus
                Rhombognathides
                Rhombognathus
                Acaromantis
                Simognathus
                    Simognathus adriaticus
                    Simognathus leiomerus
                    Simognathus minutus
                    Simognathus serratus
                    Simognathus latitarsus
                    Simognathus coreensis
                    Simognathus euphractus
                    Simognathus cruciferus
                    Simognathus cramerae
                    Simognathus abnormalus
                    Simognathus actius
                    Simognathus areolatus
                    Simognathus aspidiotus
                    Simognathus clypeatus
                    Simognathus corneatus
                    Simognathus coutieri
                    Simognathus delicatulus
                    Simognathus disparilis
                    Simognathus exoticus
                    Simognathus foveolatus
                    Simognathus fuscus
                    Simognathus gibberosus
                    Simognathus glaber
                    Simognathus glareus
                    Simognathus gracilis
                    Simognathus hulingsi
                    Simognathus maculatus
                    Simognathus magellanicus
                    Simognathus minor
                    Simognathus obtusus
                    Simognathus pectinatus
                    Simognathus platyaspis
                    Simognathus pygmaeus
                    Simognathus salebrosus
                    Simognathus scutatus
                    Simognathus similis
                    Simognathus specialis
                    Simognathus subobtusus
                    Simognathus tener
                    Simognathus trachys
                    Simognathus tropicalis
                    Simognathus uniscutatus
                    Simognathus variolosus
                    Simognathus versicolor
                    Simognathus xandarus
                Acanthohalacarus
                Acanthopalpus
                Mictognathus
                Leptospathis
                Acarothrix
                Arenihalacarus
                Astacopsiphagus
                Australacarus
                Corallihalacarus
                Enterohalacarus
                Halacaroides
                Hamohalacarus
                Himejacarus
                Lobohalacarus
                Parasoldanellonyx
                Peregrinacarus
                Phacacrus
                Pontacarus
                Porohalacarus
                Porolohmannella
                Pseudosoldanellonyx
                Rhombognathopsis
                Ropohalacarus
                Scaptognathides
                Soldanellonyx
                Spongihalacarus
                Stygohalacarus
                Thalassacarus
                Thallassopthirius
                Tropihalacarus
                Velardoacarus
                Werthelloides
                Winlundia
                Xenohalacarus
                Halixodes
                Limnohalacarus
                Makarovana
        Pseudoscorpiones
        Acari
      Pycnogonida
    Myriapoda
    Hexapoda
  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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