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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
    Echinozoa
      Echinoidea
        Euechinoidea
        Perischoechinoidea
        Echinoidea incertae sedis
        Cidaroidea
          Cidaroida
            Cidaridea
            Histocidaridea
              Histocidaridae
                  Poriocidaris
                  Histocidaris
                    Histocidaris australiae
                    Histocidaris elegans
                    Histocidaris variabilis
                    Histocidaris nuttingi
                    Histocidaris sharreri
                    Histocidaris longicollis
                    Histocidaris acutispina
                    Histocidaris carinata
                    Histocidaris cobosi
                    Histocidaris crassispina
                    Histocidaris denticulata
                    Histocidaris formosa
                    Histocidaris magnifica
                    Histocidaris mikasiensis
                    Histocidaris purpurata
                    Histocidaris recurvata
                  Porocidaris
              Psychocidaridae
            Diplocidaridae
            Miocidaridae
            Polycidaridae
            Rhabdocidaridae
            Serpianotiaridae
            Triadocidaridae
            Anisocidaridae
            Tetracidaridae
            Nenoticidaridae
        Palaeozoic Echinoidea
        Glyphostoma
      Holothuroidea
  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