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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 edulis arcassonensis
                            Processa edulis crassipes
                            Processa edulis 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