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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
        Mystacocarida
        Copepoda
          Progymnoplea
          Neocopepoda
            Gymnoplea
              Calanoida
                  Acartiidae
                  Aetideidae
                  Arietellidae
                  Augaptilidae
                  Bathypontiidae
                  Calanidae
                  Candaciidae
                  Centropagidae
                  Clausocalanidae
                  Diaixidae
                  Discoidae
                  Eucalanidae
                  Euchaetidae
                  Heterorhabdidae
                  Lucicutiidae
                  Mecynoceridae
                  Megacalanidae
                  Mesaiokeratidae
                  Metridinidae
                  Paracalanidae
                  Parapontellidae
                  Phaennidae
                  Phyllopodidae
                  Pontellidae
                  Pseudocyclopidae
                  Pseudocyclopiidae
                  Pseudodiaptomidae
                  Ridgewayiidae
                  Ryocalanidae
                  Scolecitrichidae
                  Spinocalanidae
                  Stephidae
                  Temoridae
                  Tharybidae
                  Pseudocalanidae
                  Calocalanidae
                  Nullosetigeridae
                  Rhincalanidae
                  Kyphocalanidae
                    Kyphocalanus
                  Rostrocalanidae
            Podoplea
          Thaumatopsylloida
        Branchiura
        Tantulocarida
        Thecostraca
        Pentastomida
      Malacostraca
      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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