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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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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
                      Parapontophilus
                      Philocheras
                        Philocheras bispinosus
                            Philocheras bispinosus bispinosus
                            Philocheras bispinosus neglectus
                        Philocheras echinulatus
                        Philocheras fasciatus
                        Philocheras monacanthus
                        Philocheras sculptus
                        Philocheras trispinosus
                        Philocheras aglyptus
                        Philocheras bidens
                        Philocheras gaillardi
                        Philocheras opici
                        Philocheras prionolepis
                        Philocheras wolffi
                        Philocheras triangulus
                        Philocheras gorei
                        Philocheras acutirostratus
                        Philocheras angustirostris
                        Philocheras anthonyi
                        Philocheras australis
                        Philocheras bidentatus
                        Philocheras breviflagella
                        Philocheras brucei
                        Philocheras candidus
                        Philocheras carinicauda
                        Philocheras chiltoni
                        Philocheras coralliophila
                        Philocheras dimorphus
                        Philocheras flindersi
                        Philocheras fujinoi
                        Philocheras gemmaceus
                        Philocheras hamiltoni
                        Philocheras hendersoni
                        Philocheras incisus
                        Philocheras intermedius
                        Philocheras japonicus
                        Philocheras kempii
                        Philocheras lapillus
                        Philocheras lowisi
                        Philocheras magnioculus
                        Philocheras megalocheir
                        Philocheras modestus
                        Philocheras nikiforovi
                        Philocheras obliquus
                        Philocheras parasculptus
                        Philocheras parvirostris
                        Philocheras pilosoides
                        Philocheras pilosus
                        Philocheras planoculminus
                        Philocheras plebs
                        Philocheras quadrispinosus
                        Philocheras sabsechota
                        Philocheras vanderbilti
                        Philocheras vestigialis
                        Philocheras victoriensis
                        Philocheras wilkinsae
                        Philocheras yaldwyni
                      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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