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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
                  Bresilioidea
                  Campylonotoidea
                  Crangonoidea
                    Crangonidae
                      Aegaeon
                      Argis
                      Crangon
                      Metacrangon
                        Metacrangon jacqueti
                        Metacrangon bellmarleyi
                        Metacrangon agassizii
                        Metacrangon bahamondei
                        Metacrangon proxima
                        Metacrangon miyakei
                        Metacrangon acclivis
                        Metacrangon cornuta
                        Metacrangon crosnieri
                        Metacrangon knoxi
                        Metacrangon laevis
                        Metacrangon longirostris
                        Metacrangon monodon
                        Metacrangon munita
                        Metacrangon nipponensis
                        Metacrangon ochotensis
                        Metacrangon procax
                        Metacrangon richardsoni
                        Metacrangon robusta
                        Metacrangon similis
                        Metacrangon sinensis
                        Metacrangon spinirostris
                        Metacrangon spinosissima
                        Metacrangon trigonorostris
                        Metacrangon variabilis
                            Metacrangon variabilis asiaticus
                            Metacrangon variabilis variabilis
                        Metacrangon australis
                        Metacrangon haona
                        Metacrangon hikurangi
                        Metacrangon holthuisi
                        Metacrangon poorei
                        Metacrangon rau
                        Metacrangon spinidorsalis
                        Metacrangon teina
                      Parapontophilus
                      Philocheras
                      Pontophilus
                      Sabinea
                      Sclerocrangon
                      Notocrangon
                    Glyphocrangonidae
                  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
Archaea
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