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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
    Turbellaria
    Monogenea
      Monopisthocotylea
      Polyopisthocotylea
        Mazocraeidea
          Axinidae
            Allencotyla
                Allencotyla mcintoshi
                Allencotyla lutini
                Allencotyla pricei
            Axine
            Bychowskymonogenea
            Axinoides
            Chlamydaxine
            Loxuroides
            Neoaxine
            Nudaciraxine
            Oligapta
          Cemocotylidae
          Diclidophoridae
          Diplozoidae
          Discocotylidae
          Gastrocotylidae
          Hexostomatidae
          Mazocraeidae
          Microcotylidae
          Octolabeidae
          Plectanocotylidae
          Protomicrocotylidae
          Pyragraphoridae
          Anthocotylidae
          Monaxinoididae
          Allodiscocotylidae
          Allopyragraphoridae
          Anchorophoridae
          Bicotylophoridae
          Bychowskicotylidae
          Heteraxinidae
          Chauhaneidae
          Gotocotylidae
          Heteromicrocotylidae
          Macrovalvitrematidae
          Megamicrocotylidae
          Neothoracocotylidae
          Pseudodiclidophoridae
          Pterinotrematidae
          Thoracocotylidae
    Cestoda
    Catenulida
    Trematoda
  Nematoda
  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