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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
                  Nematocarcinoidea
                    Nematocarcinidae
                        Nematocarcinus
                          Nematocarcinus ensifer
                          Nematocarcinus exilis
                          Nematocarcinus gracilipes
                          Nematocarcinus cursor
                          Nematocarcinus rotundus
                          Nematocarcinus africanus
                          Nematocarcinus lanceopes
                          Nematocarcinus productus
                          Nematocarcinus chacei
                          Nematocarcinus manningi
                          Nematocarcinus machaerophorus
                          Nematocarcinus burukovskyi
                          Nematocarcinus ovalis
                          Nematocarcinus webberi
                          Nematocarcinus yaldwyni
                          Nematocarcinus challengeri
                          Nematocarcinus agassizii
                          Nematocarcinus altus
                          Nematocarcinus batei
                          Nematocarcinus bituberculatus
                          Nematocarcinus combensis
                          Nematocarcinus crosnieri
                          Nematocarcinus evansi
                          Nematocarcinus faxoni
                          Nematocarcinus gladius
                          Nematocarcinus gracilis
                          Nematocarcinus hanamuri
                          Nematocarcinus hiatus
                          Nematocarcinus kaiensis
                          Nematocarcinus longirostris
                          Nematocarcinus novaezealandicus
                          Nematocarcinus nudirostris
                          Nematocarcinus paucidentatus
                          Nematocarcinus parvus
                          Nematocarcinus poupini
                          Nematocarcinus proximatus
                          Nematocarcinus pseudocursor
                          Nematocarcinus pseudogracilis
                          Nematocarcinus richeri
                          Nematocarcinus romenskyi
                          Nematocarcinus safari
                          Nematocarcinus serratus
                          Nematocarcinus sigmoideus
                          Nematocarcinus subtegulisfactus
                          Nematocarcinus subtilis
                          Nematocarcinus parvidentatus
                          Nematocarcinus tenuirostris
                          Nematocarcinus tuerkayi
                          Nematocarcinus undulatipes
                          Nematocarcinus machaerophorus
                        Nigmatullinus
                    Rhynchocinetidae
                  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