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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.

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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
                  Nematocarcinoidea
                  Oplophoroidea
                  Palaemonoidea
                  Pandaloidea
                    Pandalidae
                        Bitias
                        Chlorotocus
                        Dichelopandalus
                        Heterocarpus
                        Pandalina
                        Pandalus
                        Plesionika
                          Plesionika acanthonotus
                          Plesionika antigai
                          Plesionika edwardsii
                          Plesionika ensis
                          Plesionika geniculatus
                          Plesionika gigliolii
                          Plesionika heterocarpus
                          Plesionika martia
                          Plesionika narval
                          Plesionika rossignoli
                          Plesionika williamsi
                          Plesionika alcocki
                          Plesionika alexandri
                          Plesionika brevipes
                          Plesionika carinata
                          Plesionika holthuisi
                          Plesionika longicauda
                          Plesionika adensameri
                          Plesionika bifurca
                          Plesionika minor
                          Plesionika persica
                          Plesionika quasigrandis
                          Plesionika reflexa
                          Plesionika albocristata
                          Plesionika longidactylus
                          Plesionika bimaculata
                          Plesionika hsuehyui
                          Plesionika rufomaculata
                          Plesionika scopifera
                          Plesionika suffusa
                          Plesionika longipes
                          Plesionika polyacanthomerus
                          Plesionika tenuipes
                          Plesionika willisi
                          Plesionika acinacifer
                          Plesionika assimilis
                          Plesionika beebei
                          Plesionika binoculus
                          Plesionika brevirostris
                          Plesionika carinirostris
                          Plesionika carsini
                          Plesionika chwitchii
                          Plesionika costelloi
                          Plesionika crosnieri
                          Plesionika curvata
                          Plesionika echinicola
                          Plesionika erythrocyclus
                          Plesionika exigua
                          Plesionika fenneri
                          Plesionika fimbriata
                          Plesionika flavicauda
                          Plesionika gracilis
                          Plesionika grahami
                          Plesionika grandis
                          Plesionika hypanodon
                          Plesionika indica
                          Plesionika intermedia
                          Plesionika izumiae
                          Plesionika kensleyi
                          Plesionika laevis
                          Plesionika laurentae
                          Plesionika lophotes
                          Plesionika macropoda
                          Plesionika mexicana
                          Plesionika miles
                          Plesionika multispinosa
                          Plesionika nesisi
                          Plesionika ocellus
                          Plesionika orientalis
                          Plesionika ortmanni
                          Plesionika pacifica
                          Plesionika parvimartia
                          Plesionika payeni
                          Plesionika philippinensis
                          Plesionika picta
                          Plesionika poupini
                          Plesionika protati
                          Plesionika pumila
                          Plesionika rostricrescentis
                          Plesionika rubrior
                          Plesionika sanctaecatalinae
                          Plesionika semilaevis
                          Plesionika serratifrons
                          Plesionika simulatrix
                          Plesionika sindoi
                          Plesionika spinensis
                          Plesionika spinidorsalis
                          Plesionika spinipes
                          Plesionika taiwanica
                          Plesionika trispinus
                          Plesionika unicarinatus
                          Plesionika unidens
                          Plesionika yui
                          Plesionika neon
                        Stylopandalus
                  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
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera