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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
                  Oplophoroidea
                  Palaemonoidea
                  Pandaloidea
                  Pasiphaeoidea
                  Processoidea
                    Processidae
                        Processa
                          Processa acutirostris
                          Processa canaliculata
                          Processa edulis
                          Processa elegantula
                          Processa intermedia
                          Processa macrodactyla
                          Processa macrophthalma
                          Processa modica
                          Processa nouveli
                          Processa parva
                          Processa pontica
                          Processa robusta
                          Processa aequimana
                          Processa kotiensis
                          Processa gracilis
                          Processa bermudensis
                          Processa australiensis
                          Processa borboronica
                          Processa compacta
                          Processa namibiensis
                          Processa austroafricana
                          Processa packeri
                          Processa moana
                          Processa fimbriata
                          Processa guyanae
                          Processa hemphilli
                          Processa profunda
                          Processa riveroi
                          Processa vicina
                          Processa vossi
                          Processa wheeleri
                          Processa affinis
                          Processa brasiliensis
                          Processa crosnieri
                          Processa demani
                          Processa dimorpha
                          Processa famelica
                          Processa foresti
                          Processa hawaiensis
                          Processa indica
                          Processa longirostris
                          Processa macrognatha
                          Processa neglecta
                          Processa peruviana
                          Processa philippinensis
                          Processa pippinae
                          Processa processa
                          Processa pygmaea
                          Processa sulcata
                          Processa zostericola
                  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