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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 (Philomedes) lilljeborgi
                      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