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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
      Malacostraca
        Eumalacostraca
          Eucarida
            Euphausiacea
            Amphionidacea
            Decapoda
              Dendrobranchiata
              Pleocyemata
                Anomura
                  Galatheoidea
                  Hippoidea
                  Paguroidea
                    Diogenidae
                      Calcinus
                      Clibanarius
                      Dardanus
                      Diogenes
                          Diogenes pugilator
                          Diogenes brevirostris
                          Diogenes senex
                          Diogenes serripes
                          Diogenes miles
                          Diogenes ovatus
                          Diogenes extricatus
                          Diogenes alias
                          Diogenes bicristimanus
                          Diogenes biramus
                          Diogenes capricorneus
                          Diogenes deflectomanus
                          Diogenes dorotheae
                          Diogenes pallescens
                          Diogenes dubius
                          Diogenes edwardsii
                          Diogenes fasciatus
                          Diogenes foresti
                          Diogenes goniochirus
                          Diogenes granulatus
                          Diogenes guttatus
                          Diogenes inglei
                          Diogenes investigatoris
                          Diogenes izananiae
                          Diogenes jubatus
                          Diogenes karwarensis
                          Diogenes klaasi
                          Diogenes laevicarpus
                          Diogenes lanaris
                          Diogenes lophochir
                          Diogenes maclaughlinae
                          Diogenes manaarensis
                          Diogenes merguiensis
                          Diogenes mixtus
                          Diogenes moosai
                          Diogenes nitidimanus
                          Diogenes ortholepis
                          Diogenes paracristimanus
                          Diogenes patae
                          Diogenes penicillatus
                          Diogenes persicus
                          Diogenes rectimanus
                          Diogenes spinicarpus
                          Diogenes spinifrons
                          Diogenes tomentosus
                          Diogenes tirmiziae
                          Diogenes tumidus
                          Diogenes viridis
                          Diogenes violaceus
                          Diogenes waltairensis
                          Diogenes acanthochela
                      Paguristes
                      Bathynarius
                      Pseudopagurus
                      Cancellus
                      Allodardanus
                      Loxopagurus
                      Paguropsis
                      Tisea
                      Isocheles
                      Pseudopaguristes
                      Stratiotes
                      Strigopagurus
                      Tetralobistes
                    Paguridae
                    Parapaguridae
                    Pylojacquesidae
                  Lithodoidea
                  Kiwaoidea
                  Chirostyloidea
                Brachyura
                Caridea
                Palinura
                Stenopodidea
                Thalassinidea
          Peracarida
        Hoplocarida
      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