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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
      Holothuroidea
        Apodida
          Chiridotidae
          Myriotrochidae
          Synaptidae
            Epitomapta
            Euapta
            Labidoplax
            Leptosynapta
            Protankyra
            Rhabdomolgus
            Synapta
            Synaptula
                Synaptula reciprocans
                Synaptula mortenseni
                Synaptula recta
                Synaptula indivisa
                Synaptula lactea
                Synaptula lamperti
                Synaptula macra
                Synaptula madreporica
                Synaptula media
                Synaptula reticulata
                Synaptula virgata
                Synaptula hydriformis
                Synaptula secreta
                Synaptula alba
                Synaptula albolineata
                Synaptula ater
                Synaptula bandae
                Synaptula denticulata
                Synaptula jolensis
                Synaptula minima
                Synaptula neirensis
                Synaptula rosea
                Synaptula rosetta
                Synaptula tualensis
                Synaptula violacea
                Synaptula mortensenii
                Synaptula spinifera
                Synaptula aspera
                Synaptula maculata
                Synaptula nigra
                Synaptula oestergreni
                Synaptula psara
                Synaptula striata
                Synaptula varians
                Synaptula membrana
                Synaptula purpurea
                Synaptula boweniensis
                Synaptula rubra
                Synaptula vivipara
            Lapidoplax
            Mulleria
            Dactylapta
            Eupatinapta
            Oncinolabes
            Auricularia
            Pendekaplectana
        Aspidochirotida
        Elasipodida
        Molpadiida
        Dendrochirotacea
  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