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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
            Echinothuridae
            Echinothuriidae
              Hygrosomatinae
              Sperosomatinae
              Retzneiosoma
              Echinothuriinae
                Araeosoma
                Asthenosoma
                  Asthenosoma reynoldsii
                  Asthenosoma varium
                      Asthenosoma varium album
                      Asthenosoma varium varium
                  Asthenosoma marisrubis
                  Asthenosoma periculosum
                  Asthenosoma dilatatum
                  Asthenosoma ijimai
                  Asthenosoma intermedium
                  Asthenosoma belli
                  Asthenosoma coriacea
                  Asthenosoma coriaceum
                  Asthenosoma gracile
                  Asthenosoma grubei
                  Asthenosoma heteractis
                  Asthenosoma hystrix
                  Asthenosoma owstoni
                  Asthenosoma pellucidum
                  Asthenosoma pyrochloa
                  Asthenosoma tessellata
                  Asthenosoma tessellatum
                  Asthenosoma tessellatum
                  Asthenosoma thetidis
                  Asthenosoma urens
                Calveria
                Calveriosoma
                Echinothuria
                Hapalosoma
                Cyanosoma
            Phormosomatidae
            Kamptosomatidae
          Irregularia
          Aulodonta
          Acroechinoidea
          Carinacea
        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
Monera