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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
    Crustacea
      Remipedia
      Branchiopoda
      Maxillopoda
      Malacostraca
      Ostracoda
        Myodocopa
          Myodocopida
            Myodocopina
              Cypridinoidea
              Cylindroleberidoidea
              Sarsielloidea
                Philomedidae
                  Philomedinae
                    Philomedes
                    Euphilomedes
                    Scleroconcha
                        Scleroconcha folinii
                        Scleroconcha appelloefi
                        Scleroconcha gallardoi
                        Scleroconcha ruffi
                        Scleroconcha arcuata
                        Scleroconcha diplax
                        Scleroconcha flexilis
                        Scleroconcha frons
                        Scleroconcha nanocristata
                        Scleroconcha ochotensis
                        Scleroconcha pix
                        Scleroconcha sculpta
                        Scleroconcha solox
                        Scleroconcha trituberculata
                        Scleroconcha wolffi
                        Scleroconcha edentata
                    Igene
                    Anarthron
                    Pleoschisma
                    Zeugophilomedes
                    Paraphilomedes
                  Pseudophilomedinae
                Sarsiellidae
                Rutidermatidae
            Paleomyodocopina
          Halocyprida
        Podocopa
        Palaeocopa
      Pentastomata
    Chelicerata
    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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Chromista
Archaea
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