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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
                    Galatheidae
                    Porcellanidae
                    Munidopsidae
                    Munididae
                      Munida
                      Bathymunida
                          Bathymunida polae
                          Bathymunida avatea
                          Bathymunida balssi
                          Bathymunida brevirostris
                          Bathymunida dissimilis
                          Bathymunida eurybregma
                          Bathymunida frontis
                          Bathymunida longipes
                          Bathymunida nebulosa
                          Bathymunida ocularis
                          Bathymunida quadratirostrata
                          Bathymunida recta
                          Bathymunida rudis
                          Bathymunida sibogae
                      Agononida
                      Anoplonida
                      Babamunida
                      Cervimunida
                      Crosnierita
                      Grimothea
                      Heteronida
                      Neonida
                      Paramunida
                      Plesionida
                      Pleuroncodes
                      Raymunida
                      Sadayoshia
                      Setanida
                      Tasmanida
                      Torbenella
                      Torbenia
                      Munida
                      paucistria
                  Hippoidea
                  Paguroidea
                  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
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