Purple Octopus - using citizen science to discover marine interactions

Search


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).

Search for a Species
Browse For a Marine Species
Click the links to browse through the WoRMS marine species taxonomy.
Animalia
  Mollusca
  Porifera
  Platyhelminthes
    Turbellaria
    Monogenea
    Cestoda
      Eucestoda
        Caryophyllidea
        Cyclophyllidea
        Diphyllidea
        Lecanicephalidea
        Proteocephalidea
        Pseudophyllidea
        Spathebothriidea
        Tetrabothriidea
        Tetraphyllidea
          Chimaerocestidae
          Onchobothriidae
          Oncobothriidae
          Phyllobothriidae
            Orygmatobothrium
            Anthobothrium
                Anthobothrium auriculatum
                Anthobothrium cornucopia
                Anthobothrium parvum
                Anthobothrium variabile
                Anthobothrium altavelae
                Anthobothrium galeorhini
                Anthobothrium lesteri
                Anthobothrium laciniatum
                Anthobothrium amuletum
                Anthobothrium bifidum
                Anthobothrium caseyi
                Anthobothrium crenulatum
                Anthobothrium crispum
                Anthobothrium currani
                Anthobothrium dipsadomorphi
                Anthobothrium floraformis
                Anthobothrium hickmani
                Anthobothrium karuatayi
                Anthobothrium kingae
                Anthobothrium lilliformis
                Anthobothrium lintoni
                Anthobothrium loculatum
                Anthobothrium lyndoni
                Anthobothrium minutum
                Anthobothrium musteli
                Anthobothrium oligorchidum
                Anthobothrium perfectum
                Anthobothrium peruanum
                Anthobothrium piramutab
                Anthobothrium pristis
                Anthobothrium pteroplateae
                Anthobothrium quadribothria
                Anthobothrium rajae
                Anthobothrium rugosum
                Anthobothrium sasoonense
                Anthobothrium septatum
                Anthobothrium sexorchidum
                Anthobothrium spinosum
                Anthobothrium taeniuri
                Anthobothrium uarnaki
                Anthobothrium veravalensis
                Anthobothrium pulvinatum
                Anthobothrium elegantissimum
                Anthobothrium exiguum
                Anthobothrium parvum
            Ceratobothrium
            Crossobothrium
            Dinobothrium
            Discobothrium
            Gastrolecithus
            Monorygma
            Phyllobothrium
            Pseudoanthobothrium
            Pelichnibothrium
            Guidus
            Notomegarhynchus
            Marsupiobothrium
            Pentaloculum
            Phormobothrium
          Prosobothriidae
          Tetraphyllidea incertae sedis
        Trypanorhyncha
        Eucestoda incertae sedis
    Catenulida
    Trematoda
  Nematoda
  Annelida
  Nemertina
  Arthropoda
  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