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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
      Malacostraca
        Eumalacostraca
          Eucarida
            Euphausiacea
            Amphionidacea
            Decapoda
              Dendrobranchiata
                Penaeoidea
                  Aristeidae
                  Benthesicymidae
                  Penaeidae
                  Sicyoniidae
                  Solenoceridae
                      Hymenopenaeus
                      Solenocera
                        Solenocera africana
                        Solenocera crassicornis
                        Solenocera membranacea
                        Solenocera alticarinata
                        Solenocera pectinata
                        Solenocera algoensis
                        Solenocera comata
                        Solenocera waltairensis
                        Solenocera choprai
                        Solenocera koelbeli
                        Solenocera bedokensis
                        Solenocera hextii
                        Solenocera acuminata
                        Solenocera agassizii
                        Solenocera annectens
                        Solenocera atlantidis
                        Solenocera australiana
                        Solenocera barunajaya
                        Solenocera faxoni
                        Solenocera florea
                        Solenocera geijskesi
                        Solenocera gurjanovae
                        Solenocera halli
                        Solenocera mascarensis
                        Solenocera melantho
                        Solenocera moosai
                        Solenocera mutator
                        Solenocera necopina
                        Solenocera pectinulata
                        Solenocera phuongi
                        Solenocera rathbuni
                        Solenocera spinajugo
                        Solenocera vioscai
                        Solenocera zarenkovi
                        Solenocera alfonso
                        Solenocera philippii
                        Solenocera barbata
                        Solenocera bifurcata
                        Solenocera burukovskyi
                        Solenocera danae
                        Solenocera elongata
                        Solenocera maldivensis
                        Solenocera nodulosa
                        Solenocera sumatransis
                      Pleoticus
                      Haliporoides
                      Haliporus
                      Gordonella
                      Hadropenaeus
                      Cryptopenaeus
                      Mesopenaeus
                      Parahaliporus
                      Parartemesia
                      Philonicus
                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