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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.

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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
              Calanoida
                Acartiidae
                Aetideidae
                Arietellidae
                Augaptilidae
                Bathypontiidae
                Calanidae
                Candaciidae
                Centropagidae
                Clausocalanidae
                Diaixidae
                Discoidae
                Eucalanidae
                Euchaetidae
                Heterorhabdidae
                Lucicutiidae
                Mecynoceridae
                Megacalanidae
                Mesaiokeratidae
                Metridinidae
                Paracalanidae
                Parapontellidae
                Phaennidae
                Phyllopodidae
                Pontellidae
                Pseudocyclopidae
                Pseudocyclopiidae
                Pseudodiaptomidae
                Ridgewayiidae
                Ryocalanidae
                Scolecitrichidae
                Spinocalanidae
                  Foxtonia
                  Sognocalanus
                  Damkaeria
                  Mimocalanus
                  Monacilla
                  Spinocalanus
                    Spinocalanus abruptus
                    Spinocalanus abyssalis
                        Spinocalanus abyssalis pygmaeus
                    Spinocalanus angusticeps
                    Spinocalanus brevicaudatus
                    Spinocalanus caudatus
                    Spinocalanus hirtus
                    Spinocalanus horridus
                    Spinocalanus longicornis
                    Spinocalanus magnus
                    Spinocalanus oligospinosus
                    Spinocalanus polaris
                    Spinocalanus spinosus
                    Spinocalanus validus
                    Spinocalanus ovalis
                    Spinocalanus ventriosus
                    Spinocalanus longipes
                    Spinocalanus antarcticus
                    Spinocalanus elongatus
                    Spinocalanus terranovae
                    Spinocalanus aspinosus
                    Spinocalanus dorsispinosus
                    Spinocalanus giesbrechti
                    Spinocalanus heterocaudatus
                    Spinocalanus hoplites
                    Spinocalanus longispinus
                    Spinocalanus macrocephalon
                    Spinocalanus major
                    Spinocalanus neospinosus
                    Spinocalanus parabyssalis
                    Spinocalanus pseudospinipes
                    Spinocalanus pteronus
                    Spinocalanus schaudinni
                    Spinocalanus similis
                    Spinocalanus spinipes
                    Spinocalanus stellatus
                    Spinocalanus usitatus
                    Spinocalanus dispar
                    Spinocalanus latifrons
                    Spinocalanus paraoligospinosus
                  Teneriforma
                  Rhinomaxillaris
                  Kunihulsea
                  Mospicalanus
                  Arctokonstantinus
                  Isaacsicalanus
                  Methanocalanus
                  Hypsicalanus
                  Oxycalanus
                  Streptocalanus
                  Tanyrhinus
                Stephidae
                Temoridae
                Tharybidae
                Pseudocalanidae
                Calocalanidae
                Nullosetigeridae
                Rhincalanidae
                Kyphocalanidae
                Rostrocalanidae
            Podoplea
          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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