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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
                Penaeoidea
                  Aristeidae
                  Benthesicymidae
                  Penaeidae
                  Sicyoniidae
                    Sicyonia
                        Sicyonia carinata
                        Sicyonia brevirostris
                        Sicyonia ocellata
                        Sicyonia longicauda
                        Sicyonia trispinosa
                        Sicyonia fallax
                        Sicyonia galeata
                        Sicyonia affinis
                        Sicyonia aliaffinis
                        Sicyonia benthophila
                        Sicyonia bispinosa
                        Sicyonia burkenroadi
                        Sicyonia cristata
                        Sicyonia curvirostris
                        Sicyonia disdorsalis
                        Sicyonia disedwardsi
                        Sicyonia disparri
                        Sicyonia dorsalis
                        Sicyonia formosa
                        Sicyonia furcata
                        Sicyonia inflexa
                        Sicyonia ingentis
                        Sicyonia japonica
                        Sicyonia laevigata
                        Sicyonia laevis
                        Sicyonia lancifer
                        Sicyonia martini
                        Sicyonia mixta
                        Sicyonia nasica
                        Sicyonia nebulosa
                        Sicyonia olgae
                        Sicyonia ommanneyi
                        Sicyonia parafallax
                        Sicyonia parri
                        Sicyonia parvula
                        Sicyonia penicillata
                        Sicyonia picta
                        Sicyonia rectirostris
                        Sicyonia stimpsoni
                        Sicyonia truncata
                        Sicyonia typica
                        Sicyonia vitulans
                        Sicyonia wheeleri
                        Sicyonia sculpta
                        Sicyonia abathophila
                        Sicyonia adunca
                        Sicyonia altirostrum
                        Sicyonia dejouanneti
                        Sicyonia komai
                        Sicyonia longicornis
                        Sicyonia metavitulans
                        Sicyonia parajaponica
                        Sicyonia robusta
                        Sicyonia rocroi
                        Sicyonia rotunda
                        Sicyonia taiwanensis
                        Sicyonia australiensis
                    Synhimantites
                  Solenoceridae
                Sergestoidea
              Pleocyemata
          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