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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
      Malacostraca
        Eumalacostraca
          Eucarida
            Euphausiacea
            Amphionidacea
            Decapoda
              Dendrobranchiata
                Penaeoidea
                  Aristeidae
                  Benthesicymidae
                  Penaeidae
                  Sicyoniidae
                  Solenoceridae
                    Hymenopenaeus
                    Solenocera
                      Solenocera africana
                      Solenocera crassicornis
                      Solenocera membranacea
                      Solenocera alticarinata
                      Solenocera pectinata
                      Solenocera algoensis
                      Solenocera comata
                      Solenocera waltairensis
                      Solenocera choprai
                      Solenocera koelbeli
                      Solenocera bedokensis
                      Solenocera hextii
                      Solenocera acuminata
                      Solenocera agassizii
                      Solenocera annectens
                      Solenocera atlantidis
                      Solenocera australiana
                      Solenocera barunajaya
                      Solenocera faxoni
                      Solenocera florea
                      Solenocera geijskesi
                      Solenocera gurjanovae
                      Solenocera halli
                      Solenocera mascarensis
                      Solenocera melantho
                      Solenocera moosai
                      Solenocera mutator
                      Solenocera necopina
                      Solenocera pectinulata
                      Solenocera phuongi
                      Solenocera rathbuni
                      Solenocera spinajugo
                      Solenocera vioscai
                      Solenocera zarenkovi
                      Solenocera alfonso
                          Solenocera alfonso f. inermis
                          Solenocera alfonso f. typica
                      Solenocera philippii
                      Solenocera barbata
                      Solenocera bifurcata
                      Solenocera burukovskyi
                      Solenocera danae
                      Solenocera elongata
                      Solenocera maldivensis
                      Solenocera nodulosa
                      Solenocera sumatransis
                    Pleoticus
                    Haliporoides
                    Haliporus
                    Gordonella
                    Hadropenaeus
                    Cryptopenaeus
                    Mesopenaeus
                    Parahaliporus
                    Parartemesia
                    Philonicus
                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
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