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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
              Bentheuphausiidae
              Euphausiidae
                Euphausia
                Meganyctiphanes
                Nematobrachion
                Nematoscelis
                Nyctiphanes
                Stylocheiron
                Thysanoessa
                Thysanopoda
                    Thysanopoda acutifrons
                    Thysanopoda aequalis
                    Thysanopoda cornuta
                    Thysanopoda cristata
                    Thysanopoda egregia
                    Thysanopoda microphthalma
                    Thysanopoda monacantha
                    Thysanopoda obtusifrons
                    Thysanopoda pectinata
                    Thysanopoda tricuspidata
                    Thysanopoda subaequalis
                    Thysanopoda orientalis
                    Thysanopoda astylata
                    Thysanopoda minyops
                    Thysanopoda spinicaudata
                    Thysanopoda distinguenda
                    Thysanopoda bidentata
                    Thysanopoda inermis
                    Thysanopoda neglecta
                    Thysanopoda norvegica
                    Thysanopoda raschii
                    Thysanopoda dubia
                    Thysanopoda johnstoni
                    Thysanopoda insignis
                    Thysanopoda biproducta
                    Thysanopoda lateralis
                    Thysanopoda ctenophora
                    Thysanopoda agassizi
                    Thysanopoda mansui
                    Thysanopoda vulgaris
                    Thysanopoda tricuspida
                Boreophausia
                Nematodactylus
                Rhoda
                Parathysanopoda
                Cyrtopia
            Amphionidacea
            Decapoda
          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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