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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
                  Lithodoidea
                  Kiwaoidea
                  Chirostyloidea
                    Chirostylidae
                    Kiwaidae
                    Eumunididae
                      Eumunida
                          Eumunida bella
                          Eumunida picta
                          Eumunida spinosa
                          Eumunida (Eumunida)
                          Eumunida ampliata
                          Eumunida annulosa
                          Eumunida australis
                          Eumunida balssi
                          Eumunida bispinata
                          Eumunida capillata
                          Eumunida chani
                          Eumunida debilistriata
                          Eumunida depressa
                          Eumunida dofleini
                          Eumunida funambulus
                          Eumunida gordonae
                          Eumunida karubar
                          Eumunida keijii
                          Eumunida laevimana
                          Eumunida macphersoni
                          Eumunida marginata
                          Eumunida minor
                          Eumunida multilineata
                          Eumunida pacifica
                          Eumunida parva
                          Eumunida similior
                          Eumunida smithii
                          Eumunida squamifera
                          Eumunida sternomaculata
                          Eumunida treguieri
                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
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Chromista
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