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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
            Pedinoida
            Diadematacea
            Aspidodiadematoida
              Aspidodiadematidae
                Aspidodiadema
                  Aspidodiadema antillarum
                  Aspidodiadema jacobyi
                  Aspidodiadema africanum
                  Aspidodiadema tonsum
                  Aspidodiadema montanum
                  Aspidodiadema sinuosum
                  Aspidodiadema intermedium
                  Aspidodiadema annulatum
                  Aspidodiadema arcitum
                  Aspidodiadema hawaiiense
                  Aspidodiadema meijerei
                  Aspidodiadema nicobaricum
                  Aspidodiadema (Plesiodiadema)
                      Aspidodiadema (Plesiodiadema) microtuberculatum
                  Aspidodiadema microtuberculatum
                Plesiodiadema
                Dermatodiadema
                Culozoma
                Gymnotiara
            Diadematoida
            Micropygoida
            Pelanechinidae
            Latistellata
          Carinacea
        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
Plantae
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Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera