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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
              Phalaropodidae
              Stercorariidae
              Sternidae
                Chlidonias
                Sterna
                  Sterna albifrons
                  Sterna bengalensis
                  Sterna caspia
                  Sterna dougallii
                  Sterna fuscata
                  Sterna hirundo
                  Sterna maxima
                  Sterna nilotica
                  Sterna paradisaea
                  Sterna sandvicensis
                  Sterna antillarum
                  Sterna forsteri
                  Sterna saundersi
                  Sterna anaethetus
                  Sterna bergii
                  Sterna repressa
                  Sterna sumatrana
                  Sterna vittata
                  Sterna albostriata
                  Sterna elegans
                  Sterna virgata
                  Sterna trudeaui
                  Sterna striata
                  Sterna hirundinacea
                  Sterna acuticauda
                  Sterna aleutica
                  Sterna aurantia
                  Sterna balaenarum
                  Sterna bernsteini
                  Sterna lorata
                  Sterna lunata
                  Sterna nereis
                  Sterna superciliaris
                  Sterna melanogaster
                  Sterna eurygnatha
                  Sterna acuflavida
                      Sterna acuflavida acuflavida
                      Sterna acuflavida eurygnatha
            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