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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
                  Bresilioidea
                  Campylonotoidea
                  Crangonoidea
                    Crangonidae
                        Aegaeon
                        Argis
                        Crangon
                        Metacrangon
                          Metacrangon jacqueti
                          Metacrangon bellmarleyi
                          Metacrangon agassizii
                          Metacrangon bahamondei
                          Metacrangon proxima
                          Metacrangon miyakei
                          Metacrangon acclivis
                          Metacrangon cornuta
                          Metacrangon crosnieri
                          Metacrangon knoxi
                          Metacrangon laevis
                          Metacrangon longirostris
                          Metacrangon monodon
                          Metacrangon munita
                          Metacrangon nipponensis
                          Metacrangon ochotensis
                          Metacrangon procax
                          Metacrangon richardsoni
                          Metacrangon robusta
                          Metacrangon similis
                          Metacrangon sinensis
                          Metacrangon spinirostris
                          Metacrangon spinosissima
                          Metacrangon trigonorostris
                          Metacrangon variabilis
                          Metacrangon australis
                          Metacrangon haona
                          Metacrangon hikurangi
                          Metacrangon holthuisi
                          Metacrangon poorei
                          Metacrangon rau
                          Metacrangon spinidorsalis
                          Metacrangon teina
                        Parapontophilus
                        Philocheras
                        Pontophilus
                        Sabinea
                        Sclerocrangon
                        Notocrangon
                    Glyphocrangonidae
                  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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