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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
      Ostracoda
        Myodocopa
          Myodocopida
            Myodocopina
              Cypridinoidea
              Cylindroleberidoidea
              Sarsielloidea
                Philomedidae
                Sarsiellidae
                  Sarsiellinae
                    Eusarsiella
                    Sarsiella
                        Sarsiella capsula
                        Sarsiella levis
                        Sarsiella neapolis
                        Sarsiella anommata
                        Sarsiella anspinulosa
                        Sarsiella armata
                        Sarsiella fadeevi
                        Sarsiella foveata
                        Sarsiella japonica
                        Sarsiella longicornis
                        Sarsiella maculata
                        Sarsiella misakensis
                        Sarsiella multispinosa
                        Sarsiella murrayana
                        Sarsiella nana
                        Sarsiella oryx
                        Sarsiella parvispinosa
                        Sarsiella pugnax
                        Sarsiella sculpta
                        Sarsiella simplex
                        Sarsiella spinulosa
                        Sarsiella striata
                        Sarsiella varix
                        Sarsiella verae
                        Sarsiella absens
                        Sarsiella africana
                        Sarsiella capillaris
                        Sarsiella costata
                        Sarsiella dornellasae
                        Sarsiella gigancantha
                        Sarsiella gomoiui
                        Sarsiella janicea
                        Sarsiella lunata
                        Sarsiella maurae
                        Sarsiella ocula
                        Sarsiella ozotothrix
                        Sarsiella punctata
                        Sarsiella rudescui
                        Sarsiella spinosa
                        Sarsiella texana
                        Sarsiella tricostata
                        Sarsiella truncana
                    Neomuelleriella
                    Chelicopia
                    Metasarsiella
                    Eurypylus
                    Spinacopia
                    Adelta
                    Alphasarsiella
                    Ancohenia
                    Anscottiella
                    Cymbicopia
                    Junctichela
                    Parasarsiella
                  Dantyinae
                Rutidermatidae
            Paleomyodocopina
          Halocyprida
        Podocopa
        Palaeocopa
      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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