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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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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
                  Haemocera
                  Monstrilla
                      Monstrilla anglica
                      Monstrilla conjunctiva
                      Monstrilla filogranarum
                      Monstrilla gracilicauda
                      Monstrilla grandis
                      Monstrilla helgolandica
                      Monstrilla intermedia
                      Monstrilla longicornis
                      Monstrilla longiremis
                      Monstrilla minuta
                      Monstrilla obesa
                      Monstrilla roscovita
                      Monstrilla serricornis
                      Monstrilla intermedia
                      Monstrilla canadensis
                      Monstrilla floridana
                      Monstrilla leucopsis
                      Monstrilla dubia
                      Monstrilla clavata
                      Monstrilla wandeli
                      Monstrilla rugosa
                      Monstrilla anglica
                      Monstrilla lata
                      Monstrilla reticulata
                      Monstrilla danae
                      Monstrilla ostroumowi
                      Monstrilla grandis
                      Monstrilla longispinosa
                      Monstrilla longissima
                      Monstrilla danae
                      Monstrilla mixta
                      Monstrilla arctica
                      Monstrilla barbata
                      Monstrilla brevicornis
                      Monstrilla capitellicola
                      Monstrilla cymbula
                      Monstrilla elongata
                      Monstrilla ghardaquensis
                      Monstrilla gohari
                      Monstrilla inserta
                      Monstrilla investigatoris
                      Monstrilla javensis
                      Monstrilla mariaeugeniae
                      Monstrilla nasuta
                      Monstrilla orcula
                      Monstrilla ostroumovi
                      Monstrilla papilliremis
                      Monstrilla rebis
                      Monstrilla reidae
                      Monstrilla spinosa
                      Monstrilla wandelii
                      Monstrilla gibbosa
                      Monstrilla bernardensis
                      Monstrilla pontica
                      Monstrilla rigida
                      Monstrilla viridis
                      Monstrilla hamatapex
                      Monstrilla grygieri
                      Monstrilla careli
                      Monstrilla pygmaea
                      Monstrilla pustulata
                      Monstrilla brasiliensis
                      Monstrilla careloides
                      Monstrilla bahiana
                      Monstrilla satchmoi
                      Monstrilla fosshageni
                      Monstrilla humesi
                      Monstrilla marioi
                      Monstrilla globosa
                      Monstrilla longa
                      Monstrilla longipes
                      Monstrilla nicholsii
                      Monstrilla turgida
                      Monstrilla boxshalli
                      Monstrilla bullata
                      Monstrilla claparedei
                      Monstrilla germanica
                      Monstrilla gigas
                      Monstrilla malaquini
                      Monstrilla quintanarooensis
                      Monstrilla rostrata
                      Monstrilla similirostrata
                      Monstrilla striata
                      Monstrilla tenuis
                      Monstrilla tropica
                      Monstrilla zetlandica
                      Monstrilla californiensis
                      Monstrilla thompsonii
                      Monstrilla pallida
                      Monstrilla typica
                      Monstrilla scotti
                      Monstrilla frondipes
                      Monstrilla quadridens
                      Monstrilla tumorifrons
                      Monstrilla ghardaqana
                      Monstrilla quadriseta
                  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
Monera