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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
              Harpacticoida
              Poecilostomatoida
              Siphonostomatoida
              Monstrilloida
                Monstrillidae
                  Cymbasoma
                    Cymbasoma claparedei
                    Cymbasoma frondipes
                    Cymbasoma longispinosum
                    Cymbasoma malaquini
                    Cymbasoma pallidum
                    Cymbasoma reticulatum
                    Cymbasoma rigidum
                    Cymbasoma rostratum
                    Cymbasoma similirostratum
                    Cymbasoma striatum
                    Cymbasoma tenuis
                    Cymbasoma thompsoni
                    Cymbasoma tumorifrons
                    Cymbasoma zetlandicum
                    Cymbasoma longispinosus
                    Cymbasoma agoense
                    Cymbasoma bali
                    Cymbasoma bowmani
                    Cymbasoma boxshalli
                    Cymbasoma bullatum
                    Cymbasoma californiense
                    Cymbasoma chelemense
                    Cymbasoma concepcionae
                    Cymbasoma germanicum
                    Cymbasoma ghardaqana
                    Cymbasoma gigas
                    Cymbasoma gracile
                    Cymbasoma javensis
                    Cymbasoma mcalicei
                    Cymbasoma morii
                    Cymbasoma nicolettae
                    Cymbasoma quadridens
                    Cymbasoma quintanarooense
                    Cymbasoma rochai
                    Cymbasoma irmiziae
                    Cymbasoma tropicum
                    Cymbasoma williamsoni
                    Cymbasoma nicobarica
                    Cymbasoma agoensis
                    Cymbasoma bullatus
                        Cymbasoma bullatus ghardagana
                    Cymbasoma herdmani
                    Cymbasoma thompsonii
                    Cymbasoma tirmiziae
                    Cymbasoma tropica
                    Cymbasoma quintanarooensis
                    Cymbasoma ghardaqanum
                    Cymbasoma javaensis
                    Cymbasoma reticulatus
                    Cymbasoma roscovita
                    Cymbasoma danae
                    Cymbasoma filogranarum
                    Cymbasoma davisi
                    Cymbasoma cocoense
                    Cymbasoma guererrense
                    Cymbasoma janetae
                    Cymbasoma striifrons
                  Haemocera
                  Monstrilla
                  Monstrillopsis
                  Strilloma
                  Thaumaleus
                  Thaumatohessia
                  Guanabaraenia
                  Maemonstrilla
                  Thaumatoessa
              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
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
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