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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
    Adenophorea
      Chromadoria
        Chromadorida
          Chromadorina
            Chromadoroidea
              Chromadoridae
              Cyatholaimidae
              Ethmolaimidae
              Neotonchidae
              Selachinematidae
              Benthimermithidae
                Benthimermis
                Adenodelphis
                Bathynema
                Trophomera
                    Trophomera abyssalis
                    Trophomera acuticauda
                    Trophomera aptera
                    Trophomera arnaudi
                    Trophomera australis
                    Trophomera baticola
                    Trophomera breviptera
                    Trophomera conicauda
                    Trophomera crosetensis
                    Trophomera diploptera
                    Trophomera edouardensis
                    Trophomera elegantis
                    Trophomera filiformis
                    Trophomera gracilis
                    Trophomera hopei
                    Trophomera hureaui
                    Trophomera ifremeri
                    Trophomera improvisa
                    Trophomera iturupiensis
                    Trophomera laubieri
                    Trophomera leptosoma
                    Trophomera litoralis
                    Trophomera marionensis
                    Trophomera megala
                    Trophomera minuta
                    Trophomera minutissima
                    Trophomera pacifica
                    Trophomera petterae
                    Trophomera platyptera
                    Trophomera pseudominuta
                    Trophomera regalis
                    Trophomera rosalie
                    Trophomera rotundicaudata
                    Trophomera senckenbergi
                    Trophomera tchesunovi
                    Trophomera turpicauda
          Leptolaimina
        Monhysterida
        Araeolaimida
        Desmodorida
        Desmoscolecida
        Plectida
      Enoplia
      Adenophorea incertae sedis
      Mermithida
    Secernentea
    Nematoda incertae sedis
  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