Purple Octopus - using citizen science to discover marine interactions

Search


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).

Search for a Species
Browse For a Marine Species
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
                Anomoclausiidae
                Antheacheridae
                Anthessiidae
                Bomolochidae
                Catiniidae
                Chondracanthidae
                Clausidiidae
                Clausiidae
                Corycaeidae
                Entobiidae
                Ergasilidae
                Eunicicolidae
                Gastrodelphyidae
                Herpyllobiidae
                Intramolgidae
                Lamippidae
                Lichomolgidae
                Lubbockiidae
                Macrochironidae
                Mesoglicolidae
                Myicolidae
                Mytilicolidae
                Nereicolidae
                Octopicolidae
                Oncaeidae
                  Conaea
                  Epicalymma
                  Oncaea
                    Oncaea africana
                    Oncaea alboranica
                    Oncaea anglica
                    Oncaea atlantica
                    Oncaea bathyalis
                    Oncaea brodskii
                    Oncaea curta
                    Oncaea delicata
                    Oncaea englishi
                    Oncaea furnestini
                    Oncaea infantula
                    Oncaea ivlevi
                    Oncaea lacinia
                    Oncaea longipes
                    Oncaea longiseta
                    Oncaea media
                    Oncaea mediterranea
                    Oncaea minima
                    Oncaea minor
                    Oncaea mollicula
                    Oncaea notopus
                    Oncaea ornata
                    Oncaea ovalis
                    Oncaea parila
                    Oncaea prendeli
                    Oncaea pumilis
                    Oncaea rotundata
                    Oncaea scottodicarloi
                    Oncaea shmelevi
                    Oncaea subtilis
                    Oncaea tenella
                    Oncaea venusta
                    Oncaea zernovi
                    Oncaea exigua
                    Oncaea conifera
                        Oncaea conifera furcula
                    Oncaea borealis
                    Oncaea similis
                    Oncaea minuta
                    Oncaea dentipes
                    Oncaea gracilis
                    Oncaea platysetosa
                    Oncaea rufa
                    Oncaea bowmani
                    Oncaea brocha
                    Oncaea compacta
                    Oncaea convexa
                    Oncaea curvata
                    Oncaea damkaeri
                    Oncaea illgi
                    Oncaea macilenta
                    Oncaea olsoni
                    Oncaea petila
                    Oncaea prolata
                    Oncaea rotunda
                    Oncaea setosa
                    Oncaea walleni
                    Oncaea ancora
                    Oncaea antarctica
                    Oncaea clevei
                    Oncaea expressa
                    Oncaea hawii
                    Oncaea heronae
                    Oncaea inflexa
                    Oncaea latimana
                    Oncaea memorata
                    Oncaea neobscura
                    Oncaea obscura
                    Oncaea oceanica
                    Oncaea parobscura
                    Oncaea praeclara
                    Oncaea tenuimana
                    Oncaea tregoubovi
                    Oncaea umerus
                    Oncaea vodjanitskii
                    Oncaea quadrata
                    Oncaea furcula
                    Oncaea derivata
                    Oncaea redacta
                    Oncaea hispida
                    Oncaea obtusa
                    Oncaea philippinensis
                    Oncaea pyriformis
                    Oncaea rapax
                    Oncaea schmitti
                    Oncaea succurva
                    Oncaea umbonata
                    Oncaea waldemari
                    Oncaea canadensis
                    Oncaea thoresoni
                    Oncaea insolita
                    Oncaea rotata
                    Oncaea grossa
                    Oncaea rimula
                    Oncaea glabra
                    Oncaea paraclevei
                    Oncaea frosti
                    Oncaea bispinosa
                    Oncaea parabathyalis
                    Oncaea crypta
                    Oncaea cristata
                    Oncaea coerulescens
                    Oncaea crassimana
                    Oncaea serrulata
                  Triconia
                  Monothula
                  Archioncaea
                  Antaria
                  Myspictosum
                  Pachysoma
                  Spinoncaea
                Pharodidae
                Philichthyidae
                Phyllodicolidae
                Poecilostomatoida incertae sedis
                Pseudanthessiidae
                Rhynchomolgidae
                Sabelliphilidae
                Saccopsidae
                Sapphirinidae
                Serpulidicolidae
                Spiophanicolidae
                Synapticolidae
                Synaptiphilidae
                Taeniacanthidae
                Ventriculinidae
                Xenocoelomidae
                Tuccidae
                Corallovexiidae
                Echiurophilidae
                Euniciolidae
                Paralubbockiidae
                Tegobomolochidae
                Umazuracolidae
                Xenocoelomatidae
                Lernaeosoleidae
                Melinnacheridae
                Pionodesmotidae
                Bradophilidae
                Abrsiidae
                Makrostrotidae
              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
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera