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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
              Monstrilloida
                Monstrillidae
                    Cymbasoma
                    Haemocera
                    Monstrilla
                    Monstrillopsis
                    Strilloma
                    Thaumaleus
                      Thaumaleus tenuis
                      Thaumaleus malaquini
                      Thaumaleus similirostratus
                      Thaumaleus zetlandicus
                      Thaumaleus rigidus
                      Thaumaleus thompsoni
                      Thaumaleus claparedi
                      Thaumaleus striatus
                      Thaumaleus frondipes
                      Thaumaleus thompsoni
                      Thaumaleus filigranarum
                      Thaumaleus tumorifrons
                      Thaumaleus reticulatus
                      Thaumaleus pallidus
                      Thaumaleus longispinosus
                      Thaumaleus rostratus
                      Thaumaleus germanicus
                      Thaumaleus gigas
                      Thaumaleus rigida
                      Thaumaleus armoricanus
                      Thaumaleus typicus
                      Thaumaleus boxshalli
                      Thaumaleus bullatus
                      Thaumaleus claparedei
                      Thaumaleus quintanarooensis
                      Thaumaleus tropicus
                      Thaumaleus californiensis
                      Thaumaleus thompsonii
                      Thaumaleus ponticus
                      Thaumaleus bernardensis
                      Thaumaleus quadridens
                      Thaumaleus ghardaqana
                    Thaumatohessia
                    Guanabaraenia
                    Maemonstrilla
                    Thaumatoessa
              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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