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
                    Meromonakantha
                    Peraeospinosus
                    Typhlotanais
                        Typhlotanais brevicornis
                        Typhlotanais gracilipes
                        Typhlotanais macrocephalus
                        Typhlotanais microcheles
                        Typhlotanais mixtus
                        Typhlotanais richardi
                        Typhlotanais tenuimanu
                        Typhlotanais eximis
                        Typhlotanais kerguelenensis
                        Typhlotanais pushkini
                        Typhlotanais magnificus
                        Typhlotanais rectus
                        Typhlotanais incognitus
                        Typhlotanais mimosis
                        Typhlotanais andeepae
                        Typhlotanais angusticheles
                        Typhlotanais eximus
                        Typhlotanais grahami
                        Typhlotanais lutze
                        Typhlotanais angstromensis
                        Typhlotanais ohtsukae
                        Typhlotanais eximius
                        Typhlotanais guca
                        Typhlotanais kyphosis
                        Typhlotanais spatulasetosus
                        Typhlotanais froufesae
                        Typhlotanais pereosetulosa
                    Obesutanais
                    Typhlotanaoides
                    Hamatipeda
                    Larsenotanais
                    Pulcherella
                    Torquella
                    Typhlamia
                    Antiplotanais
                  Agathotanaidae
                  Colletteidae
                  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
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera