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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
              Pleocyemata
                Anomura
                  Galatheoidea
                    Galatheidae
                        Galathea
                          Galathea agassizii
                          Galathea bolivari
                          Galathea cenarroi
                          Galathea dispersa
                          Galathea faiali
                          Galathea intermedia
                          Galathea machadoi
                          Galathea nexa
                          Galathea rufipes
                          Galathea squamifera
                          Galathea strigosa
                          Galathea australiensis
                          Galathea mauritiana
                          Galathea orientalis
                          Galathea longimana
                          Galathea brevimana
                          Galathea genkai
                          Galathea capillata
                          Galathea venusta
                          Galathea wolffi
                          Galathea guttata
                          Galathea patae
                          Galathea aegyptiaca
                          Galathea albatrossae
                          Galathea amamiensis
                          Galathea amboinensis
                          Galathea anepipoda
                          Galathea balssi
                          Galathea bengala
                          Galathea bidens
                          Galathea bimaculata
                          Galathea boninensis
                          Galathea consobrina
                          Galathea continua
                          Galathea corallicola
                          Galathea coralliophilus
                          Galathea cymbulaerostris
                          Galathea formosa
                          Galathea hispida
                          Galathea inconspicua
                          Galathea inflata
                          Galathea keijii
                          Galathea kuboi
                          Galathea labidolepta
                          Galathea latirostris
                          Galathea lenis
                          Galathea leptocheir
                          Galathea longimanoides
                          Galathea lumaria
                          Galathea maculiabdominalis
                          Galathea magnifica
                          Galathea multilineata
                          Galathea ohshimai
                          Galathea omanensis
                          Galathea paucilineata
                          Galathea pilosa
                          Galathea platycheles
                          Galathea pubescens
                          Galathea quinquespinosa
                          Galathea robusta
                          Galathea rostrata
                          Galathea rubromaculata
                          Galathea spinimanus
                          Galathea spinosorostris
                          Galathea squamea
                          Galathea submagnifica
                          Galathea subsquamata
                          Galathea tanegashimae
                          Galathea ternatensis
                          Galathea tropis
                          Galathea vitiensis
                          Galathea whiteleggii
                          Galathea yamashitai
                          Galathea giardi
                          Galathea andrewsii
                          Galathea parroceli
                          Galathea pygmaea
                          Galathea spinigera
                          Galathea biunguiculata
                          Galathea denticulata
                          Galathea babai
                          Galathea sinensis
                          Galathea chura
                          Galathea barbellata
                          Galathea echinata
                          Galathea profunda
                          Galathea raventosae
                          Galathea sanctae
                        Lauriea
                        Macrothea
                    Porcellanidae
                    Munidopsidae
                    Munididae
                  Hippoidea
                  Paguroidea
                  Lithodoidea
                  Kiwaoidea
                  Chirostyloidea
                Brachyura
                Caridea
                Palinura
                Stenopodidea
                Thalassinidea
          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