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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
        Mystacocarida
        Copepoda
          Progymnoplea
          Neocopepoda
            Gymnoplea
            Podoplea
              Cyclopoida
              Harpacticoida
              Poecilostomatoida
                  Anomoclausiidae
                  Antheacheridae
                  Anthessiidae
                  Bomolochidae
                  Catiniidae
                  Chondracanthidae
                  Clausidiidae
                  Clausiidae
                  Corycaeidae
                  Entobiidae
                  Ergasilidae
                  Eunicicolidae
                  Gastrodelphyidae
                  Herpyllobiidae
                  Intramolgidae
                  Lamippidae
                  Lichomolgidae
                    Astericola
                    Epimolgus
                    Herrmannella
                    Lichomolgella
                    Lichomolgides
                    Lichomolgidium
                    Lichomolgus
                    Modiolicola
                    Stellicola
                    Zygomolgus
                    Heteranthessius
                    Alimeda
                    Ascidioxynus
                    Boeckia
                    Boholia
                    Botulosoma
                    Debruma
                    Diogenella
                    Diogenidium
                    Gelastomolgus
                    Henicoxiphium
                    Humesulus
                    Ischnurella
                    Linckiomolgus
                    Megasanoixus
                    Megasanonys
                    Neomenicola
                    Paclabius
                    Paralichomolgus
                    Parapanaietis
                    Paraphiloconcha
                    Parastericola
                    Philoconcha
                    Pseudolichomolgus
                    Pterioidicola
                    Sepicola
                    Synstellicola
                    Zygomolgides
                    Pseudoanthessius
                    Lobomolgus
                    Protomolgus
                    Dontimolgus
                    Pseudomolgus
                  Lubbockiidae
                  Macrochironidae
                  Mesoglicolidae
                  Myicolidae
                  Mytilicolidae
                  Nereicolidae
                  Octopicolidae
                  Oncaeidae
                  Pharodidae
                  Philichthyidae
                  Phyllodicolidae
                  Poecilostomatoida incertae sedis
                  Pseudanthessiidae
                  Rhynchomolgidae
                  Sabelliphilidae
                  Saccopsidae
                  Sapphirinidae
                  Serpulidicolidae
                  Spiophanicolidae
                  Synapticolidae
                  Synaptiphilidae
                  Taeniacanthidae
                  Ventriculinidae
                  Xenocoelomidae
                  Tuccidae
                  Corallovexiidae
                  Echiurophilidae
                  Euniciolidae
                  Paralubbockiidae
                  Tegobomolochidae
                  Umazuracolidae
                  Xenocoelomatidae
                  Lernaeosoleidae
                  Melinnacheridae
                  Pionodesmotidae
                  Bradophilidae
                  Abrsiidae
                  Makrostrotidae
              Siphonostomatoida
              Monstrilloida
              Misophrioida
              Mormonilloida
          Thaumatopsylloida
        Branchiura
        Tantulocarida
        Thecostraca
        Pentastomida
      Malacostraca
      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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