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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
                          Lysmata grabhami
                          Lysmata intermedia
                          Lysmata nilita
                          Lysmata olavoi
                          Lysmata seticaudata
                          Lysmata uncicornis
                          Lysmata wurdemanni
                          Lysmata vittata
                          Lysmata stenolepis
                          Lysmata amboinensis
                          Lysmata moorei
                          Lysmata boggessi
                          Lysmata pederseni
                          Lysmata rathbunae
                          Lysmata anchisteus
                          Lysmata ankeri
                          Lysmata argentopunctata
                          Lysmata bahia
                          Lysmata californica
                          Lysmata chica
                          Lysmata debelius
                          Lysmata dispar
                          Lysmata galapagensis
                          Lysmata gracilirostris
                          Lysmata hochi
                          Lysmata holthuisi
                          Lysmata kempi
                          Lysmata kuekenthali
                          Lysmata morelandi
                          Lysmata multiscissa
                          Lysmata nayaritensis
                          Lysmata philippinensis
                          Lysmata porteri
                          Lysmata rafa
                          Lysmata rauli
                          Lysmata splendida
                          Lysmata ternatensis
                          Lysmata trisetacea
                          Lysmata udoi
                          Lysmata zacae
                          Lysmata guamensis
                          Lysmata lipkei
                      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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