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
  Nematoda
  Annelida
  Nemertina
  Arthropoda
  Ctenophora
  Cnidaria
  Sipuncula
  Echiura
  Pogonophora
  Entoprocta
  Tardigrada
  Phoronida
  Brachiopoda
  Echinodermata
    Crinozoa
    Asterozoa
    Echinozoa
      Echinoidea
      Holothuroidea
        Apodida
        Aspidochirotida
        Elasipodida
        Molpadiida
        Dendrochirotacea
          Dactylochirotida
          Dendrochirotida
            Cucumariidae
            Phyllophoridae
              Havelockia
              Pentamera
              Thyone
              Neopentadactyla
              Orcula
              Phyllophorus
              Pseudocucumis
              Thyone
                Thyone cherbonnieri
                Thyone elegans
                Thyone flexus
                Thyone fusus
                    Thyone fusus mediterranea
                    Thyone fusus chinensis
                    Thyone fusus var. chinensis
                    Thyone fusus var. mediterranea
                    Thyone fusus var. papuensis
                Thyone gadeana
                Thyone inermis
                Thyone portlockii
                Thyone poucheti
                Thyone raphanus
                Thyone roscovita
                Thyone serrifera
                Thyone subvillosa
                Thyone wahrbergi
                Thyone hirta
                Thyone comata
                Thyone carens
                Thyone turrissolida
                Thyone curvata
                Thyone articulata
                Thyone serratus
                Thyone okeni
                Thyone longicornis
                Thyone avenusta
                Thyone proceracorona
                Thyone guillei
                Thyone crebrapodia
                Thyone sineturra
                Thyone vadosa
                Thyone quadruperforata
                Thyone dura
                Thyone propinqua
                Thyone venusta
                Thyone imperfecta
                Thyone aurea
                Thyone venustella
                Thyone infusca
                Thyone crassidisca
                Thyone pseudofusus
                Thyone adinopoda
                Thyone pawsoni
                Thyone deichmannae
                Thyone muricata
                Thyone anomala
                Thyone anomula
                Thyone axiologa
                Thyone bicornis
                Thyone grisea
                Thyone herberti
                Thyone micra
                Thyone nigra
                Thyone papuensis
                Thyone pedata
                Thyone profusus
                Thyone spinifera
                Thyone theeli
                Thyone (Sclerodactyla)
                Thyone (Stolus)
                Thyone (Thyone)
                Thyone (Thyonidium)
                Thyone bacescoi
                Thyone benti
                Thyone bidentata
                Thyone neofusus
                Thyone parafusus
                Thyone strangeri
                Thyone pohaiensis
                Thyone purpureopunctata
                Thyone sinensis
                Thyone polybranchia
                Thyone tanyspiera
                Thyone fusca
                Thyone discolor
                Thyone vitrea
                Thyone montoucheti
                Thyone clarki
                Thyone floridana
                Thyone ceciliae
                Thyone colnettensis
                Thyone turricata
                Thyone floccosa
                Thyone multipes
                Thyone spadix
                Thyone andrewsii
                Thyone montereyensis
                Thyone scotiae
                Thyone cunninghami
                Thyone meridionalis
                Thyone rubra
                Thyone perforata
                Thyone alba
                Thyone minuta
                Thyone perissa
                Thyone sabanillaensis
                Thyone solida
                Thyone glasselli
                Thyone lugubris
                Thyone mexicana
                Thyone brevidentis
                Thyone caudata
                Thyone longidentis
                Thyone vercoi
                Thyone festina
                Thyone castanea
                Thyone sargassi
                Thyone sluiteri
                Thyone spectabilis
                Thyone belli
                Thyone panamensis
                Thyone similis
                Thyone imbricata
                Thyone parva
                Thyone punctata
                Thyone calcarea
                Thyone hornelli
                Thyone tenella
                Thyone surinamensis
                Thyone villosa
                Thyone papillata
                Thyone pituitosa
                Thyone constituta
                Thyone micropunctata
                Thyone trita
                Thyone uniannulata
                Thyone vankampeni
                Thyone buccalis
                Thyone hassleri
                Thyone pervicax
                Thyone recurvata
                Thyone scabra
              Euphyllophorus
              Duasmodactyla
              Hemicrepis
              Pentadactyla
              Anthochirus
              Ekmanothyone
              Phyllophorella
              Pentathyone
              Athyonidium
              Pentactes
            Psolidae
            Heterothyonidae
  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