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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
          Echinothuroida
          Gnathostomata
          Echinothurioida
          Irregularia
          Aulodonta
          Acroechinoidea
          Carinacea
            Echinacea
              Arbacioida
              Echinoida
              Temnopleuroida
              Camarodonta
                Parasaleniidae
                Echinidea
                Temnopleuridea
                  Temnopleuridae
                    Temnechinus
                    Pseudechinus
                        Pseudechinus magellanicus
                        Pseudechinus marionis
                        Pseudechinus novaezealandiae
                        Pseudechinus albocinctus
                        Pseudechinus flemingi
                        Pseudechinus grossularia
                        Pseudechinus huttoni
                        Pseudechinus variegatus
                        Pseudechinus hesperus
                        Pseudechinus notius
                        Pseudechinus novae-zealandiae
                        Pseudechinus affinis
                        Pseudechinus alexandri
                        Pseudechinus atlanticus
                        Pseudechinus euryporus
                        Pseudechinus gracilis
                        Pseudechinus horridus
                        Pseudechinus lucidus
                        Pseudechinus tylodes
                    Temnopleurus
                    Salmacis
                    Melobosis
                    Mespilia
                    Temnotrema
                    Toreumatica
                    Microcyphus
                    Salmaciella
                    Amblypneustes
                    Coptechinus
                    Erbechinus
                    Holopneustes
                    Opechinus
                    Paradoxechinus
                    Melebosis
                    Prymnechinus
                    Paratrema
                    Printechinus
                    Anthechinus
                    Notechinus
                    Coptopleura
                    Dicoptella
                    Paradicoptella
                    Salmacopsis
                  Glyphocyphidae
                  Trigonocidaridae
                  Zeuglopleuridae
                Circopeltinae
                Porosoma
                Coptosoma
                Microsoma
                Eurypneustes
                Aeolopneustes
                Triplacidia
                Acrocircus
              Stomopneustoida
              Glyphopneustidae
            Calycina
            Stirodonta
            Hemicidaridae
            Orthopsidae
            Pseudodiadematidae
        Perischoechinoidea
        Echinoidea incertae sedis
        Cidaroidea
        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
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