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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
    Calcarea
    Hexactinellida
    Homoscleromorpha
    Porifera incertae sedis
    Demospongiae
      Ceractinomorpha
      Tetractinomorpha
      Dendroceratida
      Dictyoceratida
      Halichondrida
      Halisarcida
      Haplosclerida
      Poecilosclerida
        Microcionina
        Mycalina
          Cladorhizidae
          Desmacellidae
          Guitarridae
          Hamacanthidae
          Isodictyidae
          Mycalidae
            Mycale
            Phlyctaenopora
            Protoesperia
            Raphiodesma
            Rhaphidotheca
            Esperia
            Esperella
              Esperella albicans
              Esperella clavigera
              Esperella hamata
              Esperella mollis
              Esperella vosmaeri
              Esperella fibrexilis
              Esperella biserialis
              Esperella infundibulum
              Esperella lycopodium
              Esperella occidentalis
              Esperella robusta
              Esperella fristedti
              Esperella minuta
              Esperella adhaerens
              Esperella arenicola
              Esperella bellabellensis
              Esperella crassa
              Esperella crassissima
              Esperella cylindrica
              Esperella dendyi
              Esperella erythraena
              Esperella euplectelloides
              Esperella fascibula
              Esperella fisheri
              Esperella fistulifera
              Esperella fusca
              Esperella hispida
              Esperella jophon
              Esperella lapidiformis
              Esperella macrosigma
              Esperella mammiformis
              Esperella murrayi
              Esperella orientalis
              Esperella penicillium
              Esperella phillipensis
              Esperella porosa
              Esperella rara
              Esperella serpens
              Esperella simonis
              Esperella suezza
              Esperella sulevoidea
              Esperella tenuispiculata
              Esperella textilis
              Esperella toxifera
              Esperella ancorina
              Esperella anomala
              Esperella bacillaria
              Esperella littoralis
              Esperella modesta
              Esperella modesta
              Esperella nuda
              Esperella parasitica
              Esperella ridleyi
              Esperella spongiosa
              Esperella normani
              Esperella aegagropila
              Esperella floreum
              Esperella macilenta
              Esperella sordida
                  Esperella sordida var. orientalis
              Esperella lingua
              Esperella babici
              Esperella massa
              Esperella pellucida
              Esperella varpachovskii
              Esperella picea
              Esperella cupressiformis
            Acamas
            Aegogropila
            Arenochalina
            Carmia
            Gomphostegia
            Grapelia
            Kerasemna
            Oxycarmia
            Oxymycale
            Pseudoesperia
            Raphioderma
            Rhaphiodesma
            Sceptrospongia
            Mycalecarmia
            Parisociella
            Acamasina
            Paresperella
            Zygomycale
            Naviculina
            Barbozia
            Anomomycale
          Biemnidae
          Esperiopsidae
          Merliidae
          Podospongiidae
          Esperiadae
          Esperellinae
          Arenochalininae
        Myxillina
        Latrunculina
      Verongida
      Astrophorida
      Chondrosida
      Hadromerida
      'Lithistida'
      Spirophorida
      Petrosida
      Nepheliospongida
      Choristida
      Axinellida
      Agelasida
      Demospongiae incertae sedis
      Verticillitida
      Keratosa
      Myxospongiae
      Gummineae
      Verongimorpha
      Tetractinellida
      Democlavia
    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
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera