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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
                Cylindroleberidae
                Cylindroleberididae
                  Cylindroleberidinae
                  Asteropteroninae
                    Asteropterygion
                    Actinoseta
                    Asteropella
                    Asteropteron
                        Asteropteron fuscum
                        Asteropteron hirsutum
                        Asteropteron hulingsi
                        Asteropteron magnum
                        Asteropteron monambon
                        Asteropteron nodulosum
                        Asteropteron oculitristis
                        Asteropteron setiferum
                        Asteropteron skogsbergi
                        Asteropteron spinosum
                        Asteropteron thailandicum
                        Asteropteron upsilon
                    Macroasteropteron
                    Microasteropteron
                    Omegasterope
                    Pteromeniscus
                  Cyclasteropinae
              Sarsielloidea
            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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