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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
              Calanoida
                Acartiidae
                Aetideidae
                Arietellidae
                Augaptilidae
                Bathypontiidae
                Calanidae
                Candaciidae
                  Candacia
                      Candacia armata
                      Candacia bipinnata
                      Candacia curta
                      Candacia elongata
                      Candacia ethiopica
                      Candacia giesbrechti
                      Candacia ketchumi
                      Candacia longimana
                      Candacia norvegica
                      Candacia pachydactyla
                      Candacia paenelongimana
                      Candacia tenuimana
                      Candacia varicans
                      Candacia pectinata
                      Candacia colombiae
                      Candacia magna
                      Candacia catula
                      Candacia simplex
                      Candacia bispinosa
                      Candacia truncata
                      Candacia falcifera
                      Candacia maxima
                      Candacia cheirura
                      Candacia bradyi
                      Candacia discaudata
                      Candacia grandis
                      Candacia guggenheimi
                      Candacia ishimarui
                      Candacia parafalcifera
                      Candacia pofi
                      Candacia samassae
                      Candacia tuberculata
                      Candacia worthingtoni
                      Candacia bicornuta
                      Candacia brevicornis
                      Candacia columbiae
                      Candacia curva
                      Candacia ginuensis
                      Candacia gracilimana
                      Candacia inermis
                      Candacia intermedia
                      Candacia nigrocincta
                      Candacia obtusa
                      Candacia parasimplex
                      Candacia rotunda
                      Candacia turgida
                      Candacia aethiopica
                      Candacia aucta
                      Candacia clausii
                      Candacia melanopa
                      Candacia orientalis
                      Candacia ornata
                      Candacia pacifica
                      Candacia typica
                      Candacia caribbeanensis
                  Paracandacia
                  Candace
                  Ifionyx
                  Iphionyx
                Centropagidae
                Clausocalanidae
                Diaixidae
                Discoidae
                Eucalanidae
                Euchaetidae
                Heterorhabdidae
                Lucicutiidae
                Mecynoceridae
                Megacalanidae
                Mesaiokeratidae
                Metridinidae
                Paracalanidae
                Parapontellidae
                Phaennidae
                Phyllopodidae
                Pontellidae
                Pseudocyclopidae
                Pseudocyclopiidae
                Pseudodiaptomidae
                Ridgewayiidae
                Ryocalanidae
                Scolecitrichidae
                Spinocalanidae
                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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Chromista
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