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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
              Epicaridea
              Flabellifera
              Gnathiidea
              Microcerberidea
              Valvifera
              Oniscidea
                  Scyphacidae
                  Halophilosciidae
                  Ligiidae
                  Oniscidae
                  Tylidae
                  Armadillidiidae
                  Ligiamorpha
                  Trichoniscidae
                  Philosciidae
                  Scleropactidae
                  Actaeciidae
                  Agnaridae
                  Alloniscidae
                  Armadillidae
                  Balloniscidae
                  Bathytropidae
                  Berytoniscidae
                  Buddelundiellidae
                  Cylisticidae
                  Delatorreidae
                  Detonidae
                  Dubioniscidae
                  Eubelidae
                  Hekelidae
                  Irmaosidae
                  Meoniscidae
                  Olibrinidae
                  Platyarthridae
                  Porcellionidae
                  Pudeoniscidae
                  Rhyscotidae
                  Schoebliidae
                  Scleropactidae
                  Spelaeoniscidae
                  Stenoniscidae
                  Styloniscidae
                  Tendosphaeridae
                  Titaniidae
                  Trachelipodidae
                  Turanoniscidae
            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
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Protozoa
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Chromista
Archaea
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