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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
        Aspidochirotida
        Elasipodida
        Molpadiida
          Eupyrgidae
          Molpadiidae
            Ankyroderma
            Cherbonniera
            Eumolpadia
            Haplodactyla
            Molpadia
            Paratrochostoma
            Trochostoma
                Trochostoma albicans
                Trochostoma arctica
                Trochostoma blakei
                Trochostoma boreale
                Trochostoma grossularia
                Trochostoma mediterraneum
                Trochostoma thomsonii
                Trochostoma violaceum
                Trochostoma orientale
                Trochostoma angulata
                Trochostoma ecalcareum
                Trochostoma abyssicola
                Trochostoma ayresii
                Trochostoma concolor
                Trochostoma fusiforme
                Trochostoma simile
                Trochostoma parvacauda
                Trochostoma triforia
                Trochostoma lenticulum
                Trochostoma parvulum
                Trochostoma elongatum
                Trochostoma pauperum
                Trochostoma granulatum
                Trochostoma intermedium
                Trochostoma africanum
                Trochostoma scabrum
                Trochostoma antarcticum
                Trochostoma andamanense
                Trochostoma arcticum
            Heteromolpadia
            Ceratoplectana
            Embolus
            Pseudomolpadia
          Caudinidae
          Gephyrothuriidae
        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