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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
    Crustacea
      Remipedia
      Branchiopoda
      Maxillopoda
        Mystacocarida
        Copepoda
        Branchiura
        Tantulocarida
        Thecostraca
          Cirripedia
            Thoracica
              Pedunculata
              Sessilia
                Balanomorpha
                Verrucomorpha
                  Verrucidae
                      Altiverruca
                        Altiverruca carinata
                        Altiverruca costata
                        Altiverruca crenata
                        Altiverruca erecta
                        Altiverruca gibbosa
                        Altiverruca inermis
                        Altiverruca obliqua
                        Altiverruca longicarinata
                        Altiverruca quadrangularis
                        Altiverruca rathbuniana
                        Altiverruca sulcata
                        Altiverruca vertica
                        Altiverruca sala
                        Altiverruca vansyoci
                        Altiverruca longimandible
                        Altiverruca cristallina
                        Altiverruca galapagosa
                        Altiverruca jonesae
                        Altiverruca laeviscuta
                        Altiverruca navicula
                        Altiverruca nitida
                      Metaverruca
                      Newmaniverruca
                      Verruca
                      Costatoverruca
                      Rostratoverruca
                      Globuloverruca
                      Brochiverruca
                      Cameraverruca
              Ibliformes
              Scalpelliformes
              Lepadiformes
              Cyprilepadiformes
            Acrothoracica
            Rhizocephala
          Ascothoracida
        Pentastomida
      Malacostraca
      Ostracoda
      Pentastomata
    Chelicerata
    Myriapoda
    Hexapoda
  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