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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
              Anthuridea
              Asellota
                Asellota incertae sedis
                Aselloidea
                Stenetrioidea
                Janiroidea
                    Acanthaspidiidae
                    Dendrotiidae
                    Desmosomatidae
                    Eurycopidae
                    Haplomunnidae
                    Haploniscidae
                    Ilyarachnidae
                    Ischnomesidae
                    Janirellidae
                    Janiridae
                    Joeropsidae
                    Katianiridae
                    Macrostylidae
                    Munnidae
                    Munnopsidae
                    Nannoniscidae
                    Paramunnidae
                    Pleurocopidae
                    Pleurogoniidae
                    Pseudomesidae
                    Thambematidae
                    Mesosignidae
                    Santiidae
                      Santia
                      Halacarsantia
                      Kuphomunna
                      Prethura
                      Spinosantia
                    Dendrotionidae
                    Echinothambematidae
                    Joeropsididae
                    Mictosomatidae
                    Xenosellidae
                Gnathostenetroidoidea
              Epicaridea
              Flabellifera
              Gnathiidea
              Microcerberidea
              Valvifera
              Oniscidea
            Tanaidacea
            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
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Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
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