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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
          Irregularia
          Aulodonta
          Acroechinoidea
          Carinacea
            Echinacea
              Arbacioida
              Echinoida
              Temnopleuroida
              Camarodonta
                Parasaleniidae
                Echinidea
                  Echinidae
                  Odontophora
                    Strongylocentrotidae
                    Toxopneustidae
                        Toxopneustes
                        Sphaerechinus
                        Spaerechinus
                        Pseudoboletia
                        Nudechinus
                        Gymnechinus
                        Tripneustes
                        Cyrtechinus
                        Lytechinus
                        Goniopneustes
                        Oligophyma
                        Schizechinus
                        Scoliechinus
                        Heliechinus
                        Psilechinus
                        Boletia
                          Boletia granulata
                          Boletia heteropora
                          Boletia maculata
                          Boletia picta
                          Boletia pileolus
                          Boletia polyzonalis
                          Boletia radiata
                          Boletia roseus
                          Boletia viridis
                        Trichaelina
                        Sphærechinus
                        Spærechinus
                        Sphärechinus
                        Trichælina
                        Hipponoe
                    Echinometridae
                    Echinometradæ
                  Parechinidae
                Temnopleuridea
                Circopeltinae
                Porosoma
                Coptosoma
                Microsoma
                Eurypneustes
                Aeolopneustes
                Triplacidia
                Acrocircus
              Stomopneustoida
              Glyphopneustidae
            Calycina
            Stirodonta
            Hemicidaridae
            Orthopsidae
            Pseudodiadematidae
        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
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