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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
          Peracarida
            Isopoda
            Tanaidacea
            Amphipoda
            Cumacea
            Thermosbaenacea
            Mysidacea
            Mysida
              Mysidae
                Gastrosaccinae
                Siriellinae
                Rhopalophthalminae
                Mysinae
                Mysidellinae
                Boreomysinae
                    Boreomysis
                      Boreomysis arctica
                      Boreomysis atlantica
                      Boreomysis bispinosa
                      Boreomysis incisa
                      Boreomysis longispina
                      Boreomysis megalops
                      Boreomysis microps
                      Boreomysis nobilis
                      Boreomysis richardi
                      Boreomysis scyphops
                      Boreomysis semicaeca
                      Boreomysis tregouhoffi
                      Boreomysis tridens
                      Boreomysis vanhoeffeni
                      Boreomysis inermis
                      Boreomysis sibogae
                      Boreomysis semicoeca
                      Boreomysis acuminata
                      Boreomysis brucei
                      Boreomysis caeca
                      Boreomysis californica
                      Boreomysis chelata
                      Boreomysis curtirostris
                      Boreomysis dubia
                      Boreomysis fragilis
                      Boreomysis hanseni
                      Boreomysis illigi
                      Boreomysis insolita
                      Boreomysis intermedia
                      Boreomysis jacobi
                      Boreomysis kistnae
                      Boreomysis latipes
                      Boreomysis macrophthalma
                      Boreomysis obtusata
                      Boreomysis oparva
                      Boreomysis pearcyi
                      Boreomysis plebeja
                      Boreomysis rostrata
                      Boreomysis sphaeropsis
                      Boreomysis tanakai
                      Boreomysis tattersalli
                      Boreomysis verrucosa
              Petalophthalmidae
            Lophogastrida
            Anisopoda
        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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