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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
                Brachyura
                Caridea
                  Alpheoidea
                    Alpheidae
                    Hippolytidae
                      Bythocaris
                      Caridion
                      Cryptocheles
                      Eualus
                          Eualus belcheri
                          Eualus drachi
                          Eualus gaimardii
                          Eualus lebourae
                          Eualus occultus
                          Eualus pusiolus
                          Eualus cranchii
                          Eualus fabricii
                          Eualus macilentus
                          Eualus gracilipes
                          Eualus pax
                          Eualus cteniferus
                          Eualus kinzeri
                          Eualus horii
                          Eualus butleri
                          Eualus avinus
                          Eualus biunguis
                          Eualus suckleyi
                          Eualus barbatus
                          Eualus berkeleyorum
                          Eualus bulychevae
                          Eualus dozei
                          Eualus gracilirostris
                          Eualus kikuchii
                          Eualus kuratai
                          Eualus leptognathus
                          Eualus lindbergi
                          Eualus lineatus
                          Eualus macrophthalmus
                          Eualus middendorffi
                          Eualus pectiniformis
                          Eualus ratmanovi
                          Eualus sinensis
                          Eualus sollaudi
                          Eualus spathulirostris
                          Eualus subtilis
                          Eualus townsendi
                      Hippolyte
                      Latreutes
                      Lebbeus
                      Leontocaris
                      Ligur
                      Lysmata
                      Merhippolyte
                      Spirontocaris
                      Thor
                      Thoralus
                      Trachycaris
                      Heptacarpus
                      Chorismus
                    Ogyrididae
                  Bresilioidea
                  Campylonotoidea
                  Crangonoidea
                  Nematocarcinoidea
                  Oplophoroidea
                  Palaemonoidea
                  Pandaloidea
                  Pasiphaeoidea
                  Processoidea
                  Stylodactyloidea
                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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