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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
                    Hippolytidae
                        Bythocaris
                        Caridion
                        Cryptocheles
                        Eualus
                        Hippolyte
                          Hippolyte coerulescens
                          Hippolyte garciarasoi
                          Hippolyte holthuisi
                          Hippolyte inermis
                          Hippolyte lagarderei
                          Hippolyte leptocerus
                          Hippolyte leptometrae
                          Hippolyte niezabitowskii
                          Hippolyte prideauxiana
                          Hippolyte sapphica
                          Hippolyte varians
                          Hippolyte longirostris
                          Hippolyte pleuracantha
                          Hippolyte zostericola
                          Hippolyte ventricosa
                          Hippolyte palliola
                          Hippolyte kraussiana
                          Hippolyte orientalis
                          Hippolyte proteus
                          Hippolyte pusiola
                          Hippolyte hunti
                          Hippolyte obliquimanus
                          Hippolyte nicholsoni
                          Hippolyte longiallex
                          Hippolyte catagrapha
                          Hippolyte acuta
                          Hippolyte australiensis
                          Hippolyte bifidirostris
                          Hippolyte californiensis
                          Hippolyte caradina
                          Hippolyte clarki
                          Hippolyte commensalis
                          Hippolyte edmondsoni
                          Hippolyte jarvinensis
                          Hippolyte multicolorata
                          Hippolyte williamsi
                        Latreutes
                        Lebbeus
                        Leontocaris
                        Ligur
                        Lysmata
                        Merhippolyte
                        Spirontocaris
                        Thor
                        Thoralus
                        Trachycaris
                        Heptacarpus
                        Chorismus
                    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
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
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