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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
                        Latreutes
                        Lebbeus
                        Leontocaris
                        Ligur
                        Lysmata
                        Merhippolyte
                        Spirontocaris
                          Spirontocaris lilljeborgii
                          Spirontocaris phippsii
                          Spirontocaris spinus
                          Spirontocaris murdochi
                          Spirontocaris arcuata
                          Spirontocaris gaimardi
                          Spirontocaris polaris
                          Spirontocaris pusiola
                          Spirontocaris lilljeborgi
                          Spirontocaris phippsi
                          Spirontocaris dalli
                          Spirontocaris arcuatoides
                          Spirontocaris brashnikowi
                          Spirontocaris brevidigitata
                          Spirontocaris gurjanovae
                          Spirontocaris holmesi
                          Spirontocaris intermedia
                          Spirontocaris lamellicornis
                          Spirontocaris microdentata
                          Spirontocaris ochotensis
                          Spirontocaris pectinifera
                          Spirontocaris prionota
                          Spirontocaris sica
                          Spirontocaris snyderi
                          Spirontocaris truncata
                          Spirontocaris urupensis
                        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
Monera