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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
              Petalophthalmidae
                  Bacescomysis
                  Hansenomysis
                    Hansenomysis abyssalis
                    Hansenomysis atlantica
                    Hansenomysis fyllae
                    Hansenomysis nouveli
                    Hansenomysis pseudofyllae
                    Hansenomysis angusticauda
                    Hansenomysis antarctica
                    Hansenomysis armata
                    Hansenomysis carinata
                    Hansenomysis chini
                    Hansenomysis falklandica
                    Hansenomysis japonica
                    Hansenomysis lucifugus
                    Hansenomysis menziesi
                    Hansenomysis rostrata
                    Hansenomysis spenceri
                    Hansenomysis tropicalis
                    Hansenomysis violacea
                    Hansenomysis sorbei
                  Petalophthalmus
            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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Archaea
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