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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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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
                  Heteromysini
                  Erythropini
                  Mysini
                    Acanthomysis
                    Arctomysis
                    Austromysis
                    Dasymysis
                    Diamysis
                    Hemimysis
                    Kainomatomysis
                    Katamysis
                    Limnomysis
                    Macromysis
                    Megalophthalmus
                    Mesomysis
                    Mesopodopsis
                    Metamysis
                    Michtheimysis
                    Mysis
                        Mysis arctica
                        Mysis arenosa
                        Mysis assimilis
                        Mysis aurantia
                        Mysis bahirensis
                        Mysis cornuta
                        Mysis didelphys
                        Mysis fabricii
                        Mysis flexuosa
                        Mysis frontalis
                        Mysis gracilis
                        Mysis grandis
                        Mysis griffithsiae
                        Mysis helleri
                        Mysis hispida
                        Mysis inermis
                        Mysis insignis
                        Mysis kervillei
                        Mysis lamornae
                        Mysis latitans
                        Mysis litoralis
                        Mysis longicornis
                        Mysis mixta
                        Mysis neglecta
                        Mysis oculata
                        Mysis ornata
                        Mysis parkeri
                        Mysis polaris
                        Mysis relicta
                        Mysis sancta
                        Mysis scotius
                        Mysis serraticauda
                        Mysis slabberi
                        Mysis spinifera
                        Mysis spinulosus
                        Mysis spinulosus
                        Mysis spiritus
                        Mysis truncata
                        Mysis truncatula
                        Mysis vulgaris
                        Mysis gaspensis
                        Mysis lingvura
                        Mysis amblyops
                        Mysis australe
                        Mysis caspia
                        Mysis chamaeleon
                        Mysis flexuosus
                        Mysis leachii
                        Mysis macrolepis
                        Mysis microphthalma
                        Mysis productus
                        Mysis rostrata
                        Mysis scoticus
                        Mysis spinulosa
                        Mysis stenolepis
                        Mysis salemaai
                        Mysis segerstralei
                    Neomysis
                    Paramysis
                    Podopsis
                    Pontomysis
                    Potamomysis
                    Praunus
                    Pugetomysis
                    Schistomysis
                    Stilomysis
                    Synmysis
                    Anisomysis
                    Themisto
                  Leptomysini
                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
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera