Purple Octopus - using citizen science to discover marine interactions

Search


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).

Search for a Species
Browse For a Marine Species
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
                  Leptognathiidae
                    Leptognathiinae
                    Leptognathia
                        Leptognathia abyssi
                        Leptognathia acanthifera
                        Leptognathia alba
                        Leptognathia amdrupii
                        Leptognathia arctophylax
                        Leptognathia armata
                        Leptognathia brachiata
                        Leptognathia brevimana
                        Leptognathia brevimanu
                        Leptognathia breviremis
                        Leptognathia crassa
                        Leptognathia crassimana
                        Leptognathia filiformis
                        Leptognathia gracilis
                        Leptognathia hanseni
                        Leptognathia hastata
                        Leptognathia laticaudata
                        Leptognathia latiremis
                        Leptognathia longiremis
                        Leptognathia manca
                        Leptognathia ochracea
                        Leptognathia paramanca
                        Leptognathia polita
                        Leptognathia rigida
                        Leptognathia sarsi
                        Leptognathia subaequalis
                        Leptognathia tenella
                        Leptognathia uncinata
                        Leptognathia unguicillata
                        Leptognathia ventralis
                        Leptognathia voeringi
                        Leptognathia voringii
                        Leptognathia zezinae
                        Leptognathia abyssorum
                        Leptognathia angustocephala
                        Leptognathia birsteini
                        Leptognathia breviremoides
                        Leptognathia distincta
                        Leptognathia elegans
                        Leptognathia glandiceps
                        Leptognathia greveae
                        Leptognathia gyreae
                        Leptognathia indivisa
                        Leptognathia langi
                        Leptognathia linearis
                        Leptognathia lineata
                        Leptognathia longa
                        Leptognathia longimanus
                        Leptognathia luykeni
                        Leptognathia microcephala
                        Leptognathia mironovi
                        Leptognathia parabranchiata
                        Leptognathia parelegans
                        Leptognathia profunda
                        Leptognathia rotundicauda
                        Leptognathia tuberculata
                        Leptognathia vinogradovae
                        Leptognathia vitjazi
                        Leptognathia zenkevitchi
                        Leptognathia vanhoeffeni
                        Leptognathia aneristus
                        Leptognathia bamberi
                  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
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera