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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
          Peracarida
            Isopoda
            Tanaidacea
            Amphipoda
              Hyperiidea
              Caprellidea
              Gammaridea
              Ingolfiellidea
              Corophiidea
                Caprellida
                  Ischyroceridae
                  Photidae
                    Gammaropsis
                    Megamphopus
                    Photis
                        Photis lamellifera
                        Photis longicaudata
                        Photis longipes
                        Photis pollex
                        Photis reinhardi
                        Photis tenuicornis
                        Photis kapapa
                        Photis longimana
                        Photis dolichommata
                        Photis uncinata
                        Photis macrocarpa
                        Photis coeca
                        Photis spasskii
                        Photis macromana
                        Photis melanica
                        Photis pugnator
                        Photis tropherus
                        Photis fischmanni
                        Photis ariakensis
                        Photis aequimanus
                        Photis africana
                        Photis aina
                        Photis albus
                        Photis angustimanus
                        Photis antennata
                        Photis baeckmannae
                        Photis beringiensis
                        Photis bifurcata
                        Photis brevicaudatus
                        Photis brevipes
                        Photis californica
                        Photis cavimana
                        Photis chiconola
                        Photis conchicola
                        Photis davei
                        Photis dentata
                        Photis elephantis
                        Photis goreensis
                        Photis hawaiensis
                        Photis japonica
                        Photis kurilica
                        Photis lacia
                        Photis lamina
                        Photis linearmanus
                        Photis longidactyla
                        Photis macinerneyi
                        Photis macrotica
                        Photis malinalco
                        Photis nana
                        Photis nataliae
                        Photis nigricola
                        Photis obesa
                        Photis oligochaeta
                        Photis pachydactyla
                        Photis paeowai
                        Photis parvidons
                        Photis phaeocula
                        Photis pirloti
                        Photis producta
                        Photis serae
                        Photis sinensis
                        Photis spinicarpa
                        Photis strelkovi
                        Photis typhlops
                        Photis vinogradovi
                        Photis viuda
                        Photis zhujiangensis
                    Podoceropsis
                    Audulla
                    Ampelisciphotis
                    Corogammaropsis
                    Dodophotis
                    Falcigammaropsis
                    Graciliphotis
                    Latigammaropsis
                    Microphotis
                    Paranaenia
                    Papuaphotis
                    Posophotis
                    Pseudophotis
                    Rocasphotis
                    Viragammaropsis
                  Phtisicidae
                  Protellidae
                  Caprelloidea
                  Phtisicoidea
                  Rakiroidae
                  Paragammaropsidae
                  Kamakidae
                Corophiida
              Neomegamphopidae
              Iciliidae
              Iulopididae
              Kuriidae
              Maxillipiidae
              Paracalliopiidae
              Pleioplateidae
              Podoprionidae
              Priscillinidae
              Priscomilitaridae
              Prolanceolidae
              Regaliidae
              Sinurothoidae
              Sternophysingidae
            Cumacea
            Thermosbaenacea
            Mysidacea
            Mysida
            Lophogastrida
            Anisopoda
        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
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera