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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
                Centropagidae
                Clausocalanidae
                Diaixidae
                Discoidae
                Eucalanidae
                Euchaetidae
                Heterorhabdidae
                Lucicutiidae
                Mecynoceridae
                Megacalanidae
                Mesaiokeratidae
                Metridinidae
                Paracalanidae
                Parapontellidae
                Phaennidae
                Phyllopodidae
                Pontellidae
                Pseudocyclopidae
                  Pseudocyclops
                    Pseudocyclops arguinensis
                    Pseudocyclops crassiremis
                    Pseudocyclops mirus
                    Pseudocyclops obtusatus
                        Pseudocyclops obtusatus asymmetrica
                        Pseudocyclops obtusatus latisetosus
                    Pseudocyclops pumilis
                    Pseudocyclops umbraticus
                    Pseudocyclops xiphophorus
                    Pseudocyclops reductus
                    Pseudocyclops australis
                    Pseudocyclops bahamensis
                    Pseudocyclops bilobatus
                    Pseudocyclops cokeri
                    Pseudocyclops crassicornis
                    Pseudocyclops kulai
                    Pseudocyclops lakshmi
                    Pseudocyclops latens
                    Pseudocyclops lepidotus
                    Pseudocyclops lerneri
                    Pseudocyclops magnus
                    Pseudocyclops mathewsoni
                    Pseudocyclops minya
                    Pseudocyclops oliveri
                    Pseudocyclops pacificus
                    Pseudocyclops paulus
                    Pseudocyclops rostratus
                    Pseudocyclops rubrocinctus
                    Pseudocyclops simplex
                    Pseudocyclops spinulosus
                    Pseudocyclops steinitzi
                    Pseudocyclops stephoides
                    Pseudocyclops gohari
                    Pseudocyclops latisetosus
                    Pseudocyclops ornaticaudata
                    Pseudocyclops ensiger
                    Pseudocyclops minutus
                    Pseudocyclops costanzoi
                    Pseudocyclops giussanii
                    Pseudocyclops schminkei
                    Pseudocyclops faroensis
                    Pseudocyclops juanibali
                    Pseudocyclops saenzi
                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
Plantae
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Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
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