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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
                Ascidicolidae
                Botryllophilidae
                Buproridae
                Chordeumiidae
                Cyclopidae
                Cyclopinidae
                Cyclopoida incertae sedis
                Enterocolidae
                Enterognathidae
                Enteropsidae
                Fratiidae
                Haplostomidae
                Notodelphyidae
                Oithonidae
                  Oithona
                      Oithona atlantica
                      Oithona brevicornis
                      Oithona decipiens
                      Oithona fallax
                      Oithona hamata
                      Oithona hebes
                      Oithona linearis
                      Oithona longispina
                      Oithona minuta
                      Oithona nana
                      Oithona plumifera
                      Oithona pseudofrigida
                      Oithona robusta
                      Oithona setigera
                      Oithona similis
                      Oithona simplex
                      Oithona tenuis
                      Oithona vivida
                      Oithona spinirostris
                      Oithona oculata
                      Oithona rigida
                      Oithona attenuata
                      Oithona helgolandica
                      Oithona frigida
                      Oithona alvarezi
                      Oithona amazonica
                      Oithona aruensis
                      Oithona australis
                      Oithona bjornbergae
                      Oithona bowmani
                      Oithona canhanhae
                      Oithona challengeri
                      Oithona colcarva
                      Oithona cruralis
                      Oithona davisae
                      Oithona dissimilis
                      Oithona erythrops
                      Oithona fonsecae
                      Oithona fragilis
                      Oithona gessneri
                      Oithona horai
                      Oithona neotropica
                      Oithona oligohalina
                      Oithona oraemaris
                      Oithona oswaldocruzi
                      Oithona ovalis
                      Oithona ovata
                      Oithona pelagica
                      Oithona plumosa
                      Oithona pseudovivida
                      Oithona rostralis
                      Oithona sapucaiae
                      Oithona sinensis
                      Oithona spinifrons
                      Oithona spinulosa
                      Oithona tropica
                      Oithona wellershausi
                      Oithona abbreviata
                      Oithona aculeata
                      Oithona alia
                      Oithona pygmaea
                      Oithona splendens
                      Oithona nishidai
                      Oithona robertsoni
                      Oithona farrani
                      Oithona scriba
                  Paroithona
                  Dioithona
                  Oithonella
                  Oithonina
                  Oithonopsis
                  Scribella
                Thaumatopsyllidae
                Nucellicolidae
                Thespesiopsyllidae
                Cyclopettidae
                Chitonophilidae
              Harpacticoida
              Poecilostomatoida
              Siphonostomatoida
              Monstrilloida
              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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