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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
              Pleocyemata
                Anomura
                  Galatheoidea
                  Hippoidea
                  Paguroidea
                    Diogenidae
                      Calcinus
                      Clibanarius
                      Dardanus
                      Diogenes
                        Diogenes pugilator
                            Diogenes pugilator var. intermedius
                            Diogenes pugilator orientalis
                            Diogenes pugilator 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