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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
  Hemichordata
  Chordata
    Urochordata
    Cephalochordata
    Vertebrata
      Gnathostomata
        Tetrapoda
          Aves
            Anseriformes
            Charadriiformes
              Alcidae
              Laridae
                Larus
                  Larus argentatus
                  Larus audouinii
                  Larus cachinnans
                  Larus canus
                  Larus fuscus
                  Larus genei
                  Larus glaucoides
                  Larus hyperboreus
                  Larus marinus
                  Larus melanocephalus
                  Larus minutus
                  Larus ridibundus
                  Larus rossii
                  Larus sabini
                  Larus tridactyla
                  Larus delawarensis
                  Larus atricilla
                  Larus philadelphia
                  Larus pipixcan
                  Larus dominicanus
                  Larus hemprichii
                  Larus leucophthalmus
                  Larus ichthyaetus
                  Larus cirrocephalus
                      Larus cirrocephalus cirrocephalus
                      Larus cirrocephalus poiocephalus
                  Larus scopulinus
                  Larus scoresbii
                  Larus maculipennis
                  Larus bulleri
                  Larus belcheri
                  Larus modestus
                  Larus michahellis
                  Larus armenicus
                  Larus atlanticus
                  Larus brunnicephalus
                  Larus californicus
                  Larus crassirostris
                  Larus fuliginosus
                  Larus furcatus
                  Larus glaucescens
                  Larus hartlaubi
                  Larus heermanni
                  Larus livens
                  Larus novaehollandiae
                  Larus occidentalis
                  Larus pacificus
                  Larus relictus
                  Larus saundersi
                  Larus schistisagus
                  Larus serranus
                  Larus thayeri
                  Larus rosea
                  Larus icthyaetus
                  Larus heuglini
                  Larus smithsonianus
                  Larus vegae
                Pagophila
                Rhodostethia
                Rissa
                Xema
                Gygis
                Larosterna
                Leucophaeus
                Phaetusa
                Procelsterna
                Creagrus
                Chroicocephalus
                Hydrocoloeus
              Phalaropodidae
              Stercorariidae
              Sternidae
            Pelecaniformes
            Podicipediformes
            Procellariiformes
          Mammalia
          Reptilia
        Pisces
      Agnatha
    Tunicata
  Gastrotricha
  Chaetognatha
  Ectoprocta
  Mesozoa
  Rotifera
  Gnathostomulida
  Acanthocephala
  Cycliophora
  Cephalorhyncha
  Placozoa
  Bryozoa
  Myxozoa
  Sipunculida
  Pentastomida
  Nemertini
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera