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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
                Sergestoidea
                  Luciferidae
                  Sergestidae
                      Petalidium
                      Sergestes
                      Sergia
                        Sergia grandis
                        Sergia japonica
                        Sergia robusta
                        Sergia splendens
                        Sergia tenuiremis
                        Sergia extenuata
                        Sergia potens
                        Sergia prehensilis
                        Sergia regalis
                        Sergia scintillans
                        Sergia talismani
                        Sergia wolffi
                        Sergia manningorum
                        Sergia bigemmea
                        Sergia bisulcata
                        Sergia challengeri
                        Sergia colosii
                        Sergia filicta
                        Sergia fulgens
                        Sergia gardineri
                        Sergia hansjacobi
                        Sergia inequalis
                        Sergia inoa
                        Sergia laminata
                        Sergia lucens
                        Sergia maxima
                        Sergia plumea
                        Sergia profunda
                        Sergia stellata
                        Sergia remipes
                        Sergia robustus
                        Sergia phorca
                        Sergia umitakae
                        Sergia burukovskii
                        Sergia crosnieri
                        Sergia erythraeensis
                        Sergia foresti
                        Sergia jeppeseni
                        Sergia kensleyi
                        Sergia oksanae
                        Sergia vityazi
                      Acetes
                      Peisos
                      Sicyonella
              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
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Chromista
Archaea
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