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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
      Ostracoda
        Myodocopa
          Myodocopida
            Myodocopina
              Cypridinoidea
              Cylindroleberidoidea
              Sarsielloidea
                Philomedidae
                  Philomedinae
                      Philomedes
                        Philomedes (Philomedes)
                        Philomedes aspera
                        Philomedes brenda
                        Philomedes globosus
                        Philomedes interpuncta
                        Philomedes levis
                        Philomedes lilljeborgi
                        Philomedes macandrei
                        Philomedes lilljeborgii
                        Philomedes pentathrix
                        Philomedes gibbosa
                        Philomedes polae
                        Philomedes assimilis
                        Philomedes charcoti
                        Philomedes cubitum
                        Philomedes eugeniae
                        Philomedes heptathrix
                        Philomedes lofhousae
                        Philomedes minys
                        Philomedes orbicularis
                        Philomedes rotunda
                        Philomedes subantarctica
                        Philomedes tetrathrix
                        Philomedes duplex
                        Philomedes albatross
                        Philomedes bonnetti
                        Philomedes brevifiliformis
                        Philomedes dentata
                        Philomedes fortax
                        Philomedes hanaii
                        Philomedes hirutai
                        Philomedes keslingi
                        Philomedes longidentatus
                        Philomedes paucichelata
                        Philomedes pseudolofthousae
                        Philomedes pseudosordidus
                        Philomedes ptyx
                        Philomedes ramus
                        Philomedes sphinx
                        Philomedes subarcuatus
                        Philomedes tetradens
                        Philomedes thorax
                        Philomedes trithrix
                        Philomedes multichelata
                        Philomedes sordida
                        Philomedes wyvillethompsoni
                        Philomedes antarctica
                      Euphilomedes
                      Scleroconcha
                      Igene
                      Anarthron
                      Pleoschisma
                      Zeugophilomedes
                      Paraphilomedes
                  Pseudophilomedinae
                Sarsiellidae
                Rutidermatidae
            Paleomyodocopina
          Halocyprida
        Podocopa
        Palaeocopa
      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