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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
                    Rhopalophthalmus
                      Rhopalophthalmus flagellipes
                      Rhopalophthalmus mediterraneus
                      Rhopalophthalmus tattersallae
                      Rhopalophthalmus egregius
                      Rhopalophthalmus macropsis
                      Rhopalophthalmus africana
                      Rhopalophthalmus constrictus
                      Rhopalophthalmus dakini
                      Rhopalophthalmus kempi
                      Rhopalophthalmus longicauda
                      Rhopalophthalmus longipes
                      Rhopalophthalmus orientalis
                      Rhopalophthalmus phyllodus
                      Rhopalophthalmus mumbayensis
                      Rhopalophthalmus anishi
                      Rhopalophthalmus murudana
                      Rhopalophthalmus vijayai
                      Rhopalophthalmus hastatus
                      Rhopalophthalmus armiger
                      Rhopalophthalmus philippinensis
                Mysinae
                Mysidellinae
                Boreomysinae
              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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