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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
                Brachyura
                Caridea
                  Alpheoidea
                    Alpheidae
                        Alpheopsis
                        Alpheus
                        Athanas
                          Athanas amazone
                          Athanas grimaldii
                          Athanas nitescens
                          Athanas minikoensis
                          Athanas areteformis
                          Athanas djiboutensis
                          Athanas marshallensis
                          Athanas dimorphus
                          Athanas amazonae
                          Athanas nouvelae
                          Athanas squillophilus
                          Athanas anatidactylus
                          Athanas dentirostris
                          Athanas gracilipes
                          Athanas gracilis
                          Athanas granti
                          Athanas hasswelli
                          Athanas hongkongensis
                          Athanas iranicus
                          Athanas ivoiriensis
                          Athanas japonicus
                          Athanas jedanensis
                          Athanas locincertus
                          Athanas naga
                          Athanas orientalis
                          Athanas ornithorhynchus
                          Athanas ohsimai
                          Athanas parvus
                          Athanas phyllocheles
                          Athanas polymorphus
                          Athanas rhothionastes
                          Athanas sydneyensis
                          Athanas stebbingii
                          Athanas tenuipes
                          Athanas ahyongi
                          Athanas daviei
                          Athanas shawnsmithi
                        Automate
                        Salmoneus
                        Synalpheus
                        Leptalpheus
                    Hippolytidae
                    Ogyrididae
                  Bresilioidea
                  Campylonotoidea
                  Crangonoidea
                  Nematocarcinoidea
                  Oplophoroidea
                  Palaemonoidea
                  Pandaloidea
                  Pasiphaeoidea
                  Processoidea
                  Stylodactyloidea
                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
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Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
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