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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
    Polyplacophora
    Gastropoda
    Scaphopoda
    Bivalvia
      Protobranchia
      Pteriomorphia
      Heterodonta
        Archiheterodonta
        Euheterodonta
          Veneroida
            Arcticoidea
            Galeommatoidea
            Cyamioidea
            Cardioidea
            Mactroidea
            Tellinoidea
              Tellinidae
              Donacidae
                Capsella
                Donax
                  Donax semistriatus
                  Donax trunculus
                  Donax venustus
                  Donax vittatus
                  Donax variabilis
                  Donax faba
                  Donax bipartitus
                  Donax bertini
                  Donax lubricus
                  Donax veneriformis
                  Donax cuneatus
                  Donax erythraeensis
                  Donax clathratus
                  Donax madagascariensis
                  Donax sordidus
                  Donax burnupi
                  Donax serra
                  Donax sebae
                  Donax aperittus
                  Donax asper
                  Donax assimilis
                  Donax caelatus
                  Donax californicus
                  Donax carinatus
                  Donax columbella
                  Donax culter
                  Donax cumingii
                  Donax deltoides
                  Donax denisi
                  Donax dentifer
                  Donax ecuadorianus
                  Donax francisensis
                  Donax gemmula
                  Donax gouldii
                  Donax gracilis
                  Donax grasi
                  Donax hanleyanus
                  Donax impar
                  Donax introradiatus
                  Donax kindermanni
                  Donax kiusiuensis
                  Donax listeri
                  Donax marincovichi
                  Donax obesulus
                  Donax obesus
                  Donax phariformis
                  Donax punctatostriatus
                  Donax purpurascens
                  Donax pusillus
                  Donax saigonensis
                  Donax saxulum
                  Donax scortum
                  Donax semigranosus
                  Donax siliqua
                  Donax simplex
                  Donax souverbianus
                  Donax spiculum
                  Donax spinosus
                  Donax striatus
                  Donax szemiani
                  Donax ticaonicus
                  Donax tinctus
                  Donax townsendi
                  Donax transversus
                  Donax vellicatus
                  Donax verdensis
                  Donax veruinus
                  Donax victoris
                  Donax (Machaerodonax)
                      Donax (Machaerodonax) scalpellum
                  Donax hilairea
                  Donax paxillus
                  Donax nitidus
                Iphigenia
              Psammobiidae
              Semelidae
              Scrobiculariidae
              Solecurtinae
              Solecurtidae
            Glossoidea
            Veneroidea
            Chamoidea
            Ungulinoidea
            Gaimardioidea
            Hemidonacidae
          Myoida
          Anomalodesmata
          [unassigned] Euheterodonta
          Pholadomyoida
          Lucinoida
      Palaeoheterodonta
    Monoplacophora
    Solenogastres
    Cephalopoda
    Placophora
    Aculifera
    Conchifera
    Pelecypoda
    Caudofoveata
    Lamellibranchiata
    Conchifera
  Porifera
  Platyhelminthes
  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