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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
              Siphonostomatoida
                  Artotrogidae
                  Asterocheridae
                  Brychiopontiidae
                  Caligidae
                    Caligodes
                    Caligopsis
                    Caligus
                    Diphyllogaster
                    Lepeophtheirus
                    Pseudocaligus
                    Scienophilus
                    Alebion
                    Euryphorus
                    Abasia
                    Cresseyella
                    Alicaligus
                    Anchicaligus
                    Anuretes
                    Apogonia
                    Arnaeus
                    Arrama
                    Avitocaligus
                    Belizia
                    Caligera
                    Caligeria
                    Caligulina
                    Caligulus
                    Calina
                    Calistes
                    Caritus
                    Chalimus
                    Dartevellia
                    Dentigryps
                    Dysgamus
                    Echetus
                    Eirgos
                    Elytrophora
                    Gloiopotes
                    Heniochophilus
                    Hermilius
                    Homoiotes
                    Kabataella
                    Lamarckina
                    Laxe
                    Mappates
                    Metacaligus
                    Midias
                    Paralebion
                    Parapetalus
                    Parechetus
                    Platyporinus
                    Pseudanuretes
                    Pseudechetus
                    Pseudolepeophtheirus
                    Pseudopetalus
                    Pupulina
                    Risculus
                    Sciaenophilus
                    Sinocaligus
                    Synestius
                    Tuxophoropsis
                    Tuxophorus
                    Indocaligus
                    Alanlewisia
                    Tripartia
                  Calverocheridae
                  Cancerillidae
                  Cecropidae
                  Dichelesthiidae
                  Dinopontiidae
                  Dirivultidae
                  Entomolepidae
                  Eudactylinidae
                  Euryphoridae
                  Hatschekiidae
                  Kroyeriidae
                  Lernaeopodidae
                  Lernanthropidae
                  Megapontiidae
                  Micropontiidae
                  Nanaspididae
                  Nicothoidae
                  Pandaridae
                  Pennellidae
                  Pontoeciellidae
                  Pseudocycnidae
                  Rataniidae
                  Sphyriidae
                  Sponginticolidae
                  Spongiocnizontidae
                  Trebiidae
                  Ascomyzontidae
                  Calvocheridae
                  Dissonidae
                  Naobranchiidae
                  Pennillidae
                  Pontopsyllidae
                  Amaterasidae
                  Choniostomatidae
                  Pseudohatschekiidae
              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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Archaea
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