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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
          Halocyprida
            Halocypridina
            Cladocopina
              Polycopoidea
                Polycopidae
                  Pontopolycope
                  Polycopinae
                      Polycope
                        Polycope arenicola
                        Polycope areolata
                        Polycope clathrata
                        Polycope demulderi
                        Polycope dentata
                        Polycope dimorpha
                        Polycope dispar
                        Polycope fragilis
                        Polycope frequens
                        Polycope longipes
                        Polycope maculata
                        Polycope orbicularis
                        Polycope parareticulata
                        Polycope punctata
                        Polycope pustulata
                        Polycope reticulata
                        Polycope rostrata
                        Polycope striata
                        Polycope sublaevis
                        Polycope teneriffa
                        Polycope tholiformis
                        Polycope truncatula
                        Polycope tuberosa
                        Polycope vasfiensis
                        Polycope frigida
                        Polycope afanasjevi
                        Polycope bireticulata
                        Polycope bispinosa
                        Polycope inornata
                        Polycope pseudoinornata
                        Polycope bathyalis
                        Polycope duplidentata
                        Polycope elongata
                        Polycope gulbini
                        Polycope kinggeorgensis
                        Polycope levis
                        Polycope limbata
                        Polycope longirostrata
                        Polycope major
                        Polycope obtusa
                        Polycope pseudoorbicularis
                        Polycope setigera
                        Polycope siewingli
                        Polycope bransfieldensis
                        Polycope profundiclathrata
                        Polycope antarctica
                        Polycope cingulata
                        Polycope orbulinaeformis
                        Polycope inflata
                        Polycope corallicola
                        Polycope minuta
                        Polycope minutissima
                        Polycope quasisymmetrica
                        Polycope essybaiensis
                        Polycope hawaiiensis
                        Polycope krylatcki
                        Polycope kurilensis
                        Polycope brevis
                        Polycope antarctica
                        Polycope suhrmeyeri
                        Polycope favus
                      Pseudopolycope
                      Polycopetta
                      Archypolycope
                      Eupolycope
                      Micropolycope
                      Orthopolycope
                      Parapolycope
                      Parapolycopissa
                      Polycopiella
                      Polycopissa
                      Hyphalocope
                  Polycopsisinae
        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