Purple Octopus - using citizen science to discover marine interactions

Search


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).

Search for a Species
Browse For a Marine Species
Click the links to browse through the WoRMS marine species taxonomy.
Animalia
  Mollusca
  Porifera
  Platyhelminthes
  Nematoda
  Annelida
  Nemertina
  Arthropoda
    Crustacea
      Remipedia
      Branchiopoda
      Maxillopoda
      Malacostraca
        Eumalacostraca
          Eucarida
            Euphausiacea
            Amphionidacea
            Decapoda
              Dendrobranchiata
                Penaeoidea
                  Aristeidae
                  Benthesicymidae
                  Penaeidae
                      Funchalia
                      Marsupenaeus
                      Melicertus
                      Metapenaeopsis
                      Metapenaeus
                        Metapenaeus monoceros
                        Metapenaeus stebbingi
                        Metapenaeus alcocki
                        Metapenaeus ensis
                        Metapenaeus moyebi
                        Metapenaeus dobsoni
                        Metapenaeus elegans
                        Metapenaeus brevicornis
                        Metapenaeus affinis
                        Metapenaeus lysianassa
                        Metapenaeus endeavouri
                        Metapenaeus conjunctus
                        Metapenaeus anchistus
                        Metapenaeus bennettae
                        Metapenaeus dalli
                        Metapenaeus eboracensis
                        Metapenaeus insolitus
                        Metapenaeus intermedius
                        Metapenaeus joyneri
                        Metapenaeus krishnatrii
                        Metapenaeus kutchensis
                        Metapenaeus macleayi
                        Metapenaeus papuensis
                        Metapenaeus suluensis
                        Metapenaeus tenuipes
                        Metapenaeus demani
                        Metapenaeus mobilispinis
                        Metapenaeus arabicus
                        Metapenaeus motohi
                      Parapenaeus
                      Pelagopenaeus
                      Penaeopsis
                      Penaeus
                      Trachysalambria
                      Farfantepenaeus
                      Litopenaeus
                      Rimapenaeus
                      Atypopenaeus
                      Trachypenaeus
                      Parapenaeopsis
                      Macropetasma
                      Trachypenaeopsis
                      Artemesia
                      Fenneropenaeus
                      Heteropenaeus
                      Megokris
                      Miyadiella
                      Protrachypene
                      Tanypenaeus
                      Xiphopenaeus
                  Sicyoniidae
                  Solenoceridae
                Sergestoidea
              Pleocyemata
          Peracarida
        Hoplocarida
      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