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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
              Pleocyemata
                Anomura
                Brachyura
                Caridea
                  Alpheoidea
                  Bresilioidea
                  Campylonotoidea
                  Crangonoidea
                    Crangonidae
                      Aegaeon
                      Argis
                      Crangon
                      Metacrangon
                      Parapontophilus
                      Philocheras
                          Philocheras bispinosus
                          Philocheras echinulatus
                          Philocheras fasciatus
                          Philocheras monacanthus
                          Philocheras sculptus
                          Philocheras trispinosus
                          Philocheras aglyptus
                          Philocheras bidens
                          Philocheras gaillardi
                          Philocheras opici
                          Philocheras prionolepis
                          Philocheras wolffi
                          Philocheras triangulus
                          Philocheras gorei
                          Philocheras acutirostratus
                          Philocheras angustirostris
                          Philocheras anthonyi
                          Philocheras australis
                          Philocheras bidentatus
                          Philocheras breviflagella
                          Philocheras brucei
                          Philocheras candidus
                          Philocheras carinicauda
                          Philocheras chiltoni
                          Philocheras coralliophila
                          Philocheras dimorphus
                          Philocheras flindersi
                          Philocheras fujinoi
                          Philocheras gemmaceus
                          Philocheras hamiltoni
                          Philocheras hendersoni
                          Philocheras incisus
                          Philocheras intermedius
                          Philocheras japonicus
                          Philocheras kempii
                          Philocheras lapillus
                          Philocheras lowisi
                          Philocheras magnioculus
                          Philocheras megalocheir
                          Philocheras modestus
                          Philocheras nikiforovi
                          Philocheras obliquus
                          Philocheras parasculptus
                          Philocheras parvirostris
                          Philocheras pilosoides
                          Philocheras pilosus
                          Philocheras planoculminus
                          Philocheras plebs
                          Philocheras quadrispinosus
                          Philocheras sabsechota
                          Philocheras vanderbilti
                          Philocheras vestigialis
                          Philocheras victoriensis
                          Philocheras wilkinsae
                          Philocheras yaldwyni
                      Pontophilus
                      Sabinea
                      Sclerocrangon
                      Notocrangon
                    Glyphocrangonidae
                  Nematocarcinoidea
                  Oplophoroidea
                  Palaemonoidea
                  Pandaloidea
                  Pasiphaeoidea
                  Processoidea
                  Stylodactyloidea
                Palinura
                Stenopodidea
                Thalassinidea
          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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