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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
    Turbellaria
    Monogenea
    Cestoda
      Eucestoda
        Caryophyllidea
        Cyclophyllidea
        Diphyllidea
        Lecanicephalidea
        Proteocephalidea
        Pseudophyllidea
        Spathebothriidea
        Tetrabothriidea
        Tetraphyllidea
          Chimaerocestidae
          Onchobothriidae
          Oncobothriidae
          Phyllobothriidae
            Orygmatobothrium
            Anthobothrium
              Anthobothrium auriculatum
              Anthobothrium cornucopia
              Anthobothrium parvum
              Anthobothrium variabile
              Anthobothrium altavelae
              Anthobothrium galeorhini
              Anthobothrium lesteri
              Anthobothrium laciniatum
                  Anthobothrium laciniatum brevicolle
                  Anthobothrium laciniatum longicolle
              Anthobothrium amuletum
              Anthobothrium bifidum
              Anthobothrium caseyi
              Anthobothrium crenulatum
              Anthobothrium crispum
              Anthobothrium currani
              Anthobothrium dipsadomorphi
              Anthobothrium floraformis
              Anthobothrium hickmani
              Anthobothrium karuatayi
              Anthobothrium kingae
              Anthobothrium lilliformis
              Anthobothrium lintoni
              Anthobothrium loculatum
              Anthobothrium lyndoni
              Anthobothrium minutum
              Anthobothrium musteli
              Anthobothrium oligorchidum
              Anthobothrium perfectum
              Anthobothrium peruanum
              Anthobothrium piramutab
              Anthobothrium pristis
              Anthobothrium pteroplateae
              Anthobothrium quadribothria
              Anthobothrium rajae
              Anthobothrium rugosum
              Anthobothrium sasoonense
              Anthobothrium septatum
              Anthobothrium sexorchidum
              Anthobothrium spinosum
              Anthobothrium taeniuri
              Anthobothrium uarnaki
              Anthobothrium veravalensis
              Anthobothrium pulvinatum
              Anthobothrium elegantissimum
              Anthobothrium exiguum
              Anthobothrium parvum
            Ceratobothrium
            Crossobothrium
            Dinobothrium
            Discobothrium
            Gastrolecithus
            Monorygma
            Phyllobothrium
            Pseudoanthobothrium
            Pelichnibothrium
            Guidus
            Notomegarhynchus
            Marsupiobothrium
            Pentaloculum
            Phormobothrium
          Prosobothriidae
          Tetraphyllidea incertae sedis
        Trypanorhyncha
        Eucestoda incertae sedis
    Catenulida
    Trematoda
  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
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