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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
            Euphausiacea
            Amphionidacea
            Decapoda
              Dendrobranchiata
                Penaeoidea
                  Aristeidae
                  Benthesicymidae
                  Penaeidae
                      Funchalia
                      Marsupenaeus
                      Melicertus
                      Metapenaeopsis
                      Metapenaeus
                      Parapenaeus
                      Pelagopenaeus
                      Penaeopsis
                      Penaeus
                      Trachysalambria
                      Farfantepenaeus
                      Litopenaeus
                      Rimapenaeus
                      Atypopenaeus
                      Trachypenaeus
                      Parapenaeopsis
                        Parapenaeopsis cornuta
                        Parapenaeopsis hardwickii
                        Parapenaeopsis stylifera
                        Parapenaeopsis uncta
                        Parapenaeopsis sculptilis
                        Parapenaeopsis coromandelica
                        Parapenaeopsis acclivirostris
                        Parapenaeopsis maxillipedo
                        Parapenaeopsis atlantica
                        Parapenaeopsis arafurica
                        Parapenaeopsis aroaensis
                        Parapenaeopsis balli
                        Parapenaeopsis cultirostris
                        Parapenaeopsis gracillima
                        Parapenaeopsis hungerfordii
                        Parapenaeopsis incisa
                        Parapenaeopsis nana
                        Parapenaeopsis sinica
                        Parapenaeopsis tenella
                        Parapenaeopsis longirostris
                        Parapenaeopsis amicas
                        Parapenaeopsis indica
                      Macropetasma
                      Trachypenaeopsis
                      Artemesia
                      Fenneropenaeus
                      Heteropenaeus
                      Megokris
                      Miyadiella
                      Protrachypene
                      Tanypenaeus
                      Xiphopenaeus
                  Sicyoniidae
                  Solenoceridae
                Sergestoidea
              Pleocyemata
          Peracarida
        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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