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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
        Eumalacostraca
          Eucarida
          Peracarida
            Isopoda
            Tanaidacea
              Apseudomorpha
              Neotanaidomorpha
              Tanaidomorpha
                Tanaoidea
                Paratanaoidea
                  Anarthruridae
                  Leptocheliidae
                  Nototanaidae
                  Paratanaidae
                  Pseudotanaidae
                  Typhlotanaidae
                  Agathotanaidae
                  Colletteidae
                    Collettea
                        Collettea cylindrata
                        Collettea minima
                        Collettea rotundicauda
                        Collettea antarctica
                        Collettea longipleona
                        Collettea arnaudi
                        Collettea cylindratoides
                        Collettea humboldti
                        Collettea elongata
                        Collettea humbolti
                        Collettea larviformis
                        Collettea longipedia
                        Collettea pegmata
                        Collettea subtilis
                        Collettea vermiformis
                        Collettea wilsoni
                        Collettea a
                        Collettea b
                        Collettea c
                    Filitanais
                    Haplocope
                    Leptognathiella
                    Macrinella
                    Strongylura
                    Subulella
                    Nematotanais
                    Pseudoleptognathia
                    Libanius
                    Magotanais
                    Caudalonga
                    Cetiopyge
                    Cristatotanais
                    Isopodidus
                    Portaratrum
                    Tumidochelia
                  Leptognathiidae
                  Tanaellidae
                  Akanthophoreidae
            Amphipoda
            Cumacea
            Thermosbaenacea
            Mysidacea
            Mysida
            Lophogastrida
            Anisopoda
        Hoplocarida
      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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