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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
    Chelicerata
      Arachnida
        Acarina
          Prostigmata
            Pontarachnidae
            Halacaroidea
              Halacaridae
                  Acarochelopodia
                  Actacarus
                  Anomalohalacarus
                  Copidognathides
                  Copidognathus
                  Agaue
                  Agauides
                  Agauopsis
                  Arhodeoporus
                  Atelopsalis
                  Bathyhalacarus
                  Bradyagaue
                  Camactognathus
                  Coloboceras
                  Colobocerasides
                  Halacarellus
                  Halacaropsis
                  Halacarus
                  Parhalixodes
                  Pelacarus
                  Thalassarachna
                  Werthella
                  Lohmannella
                  Scaptognathus
                  Isobactrus
                  Metarhombognathus
                  Rhombognathides
                  Rhombognathus
                  Acaromantis
                  Simognathus
                    Simognathus adriaticus
                    Simognathus leiomerus
                    Simognathus minutus
                    Simognathus serratus
                    Simognathus latitarsus
                    Simognathus coreensis
                    Simognathus euphractus
                    Simognathus cruciferus
                    Simognathus cramerae
                    Simognathus abnormalus
                    Simognathus actius
                    Simognathus areolatus
                    Simognathus aspidiotus
                    Simognathus clypeatus
                    Simognathus corneatus
                    Simognathus coutieri
                    Simognathus delicatulus
                    Simognathus disparilis
                    Simognathus exoticus
                    Simognathus foveolatus
                    Simognathus fuscus
                    Simognathus gibberosus
                    Simognathus glaber
                    Simognathus glareus
                    Simognathus gracilis
                    Simognathus hulingsi
                    Simognathus maculatus
                    Simognathus magellanicus
                    Simognathus minor
                    Simognathus obtusus
                    Simognathus pectinatus
                    Simognathus platyaspis
                    Simognathus pygmaeus
                    Simognathus salebrosus
                    Simognathus scutatus
                    Simognathus similis
                    Simognathus specialis
                    Simognathus subobtusus
                    Simognathus tener
                    Simognathus trachys
                    Simognathus tropicalis
                    Simognathus uniscutatus
                    Simognathus variolosus
                    Simognathus versicolor
                    Simognathus xandarus
                  Acanthohalacarus
                  Acanthopalpus
                  Mictognathus
                  Leptospathis
                  Acarothrix
                  Arenihalacarus
                  Astacopsiphagus
                  Australacarus
                  Corallihalacarus
                  Enterohalacarus
                  Halacaroides
                  Hamohalacarus
                  Himejacarus
                  Lobohalacarus
                  Parasoldanellonyx
                  Peregrinacarus
                  Phacacrus
                  Pontacarus
                  Porohalacarus
                  Porolohmannella
                  Pseudosoldanellonyx
                  Rhombognathopsis
                  Ropohalacarus
                  Scaptognathides
                  Soldanellonyx
                  Spongihalacarus
                  Stygohalacarus
                  Thalassacarus
                  Thallassopthirius
                  Tropihalacarus
                  Velardoacarus
                  Werthelloides
                  Winlundia
                  Xenohalacarus
                  Halixodes
                  Limnohalacarus
                  Makarovana
        Pseudoscorpiones
        Acari
      Pycnogonida
    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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