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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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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
                  Pasiphaeoidea
                    Pasiphaeidae
                        Eupasiphae
                        Glyphus
                        Leptochela
                        Parapasiphae
                        Pasiphaea
                          Pasiphaea hoplocerca
                          Pasiphaea liocerca
                          Pasiphaea multidentata
                          Pasiphaea sivado
                          Pasiphaea tarda
                          Pasiphaea ecarina
                          Pasiphaea princeps
                          Pasiphaea semispinosa
                          Pasiphaea diaphana
                          Pasiphaea grandicula
                          Pasiphaea scotiae
                          Pasiphaea acutifrons
                          Pasiphaea crosnieri
                          Pasiphaea planidorsalis
                          Pasiphaea pseudacantha
                          Pasiphaea telacantha
                          Pasiphaea mclaughlinae
                          Pasiphaea merriami
                          Pasiphaea affinis
                          Pasiphaea alcocki
                          Pasiphaea americana
                          Pasiphaea amplidens
                          Pasiphaea arabica
                          Pasiphaea balssi
                          Pasiphaea barnardi
                          Pasiphaea berentsae
                          Pasiphaea burukovskyi
                          Pasiphaea chacei
                          Pasiphaea corteziana
                          Pasiphaea cristata
                          Pasiphaea debitusae
                          Pasiphaea dofleini
                          Pasiphaea emarginata
                          Pasiphaea faxoni
                          Pasiphaea flagellata
                          Pasiphaea fragilis
                          Pasiphaea gelasinus
                          Pasiphaea gracilis
                          Pasiphaea japonica
                          Pasiphaea kapala
                          Pasiphaea kaiwiensis
                          Pasiphaea korzuni
                          Pasiphaea laevis
                          Pasiphaea ledoyeri
                          Pasiphaea levicarinata
                          Pasiphaea longitaenia
                          Pasiphaea magna
                          Pasiphaea major
                          Pasiphaea marisrubri
                          Pasiphaea meiringnaudei
                          Pasiphaea natalensis
                          Pasiphaea notosivado
                          Pasiphaea orientalis
                          Pasiphaea oshoroae
                          Pasiphaea pacifica
                          Pasiphaea philippinensis
                          Pasiphaea poeyi
                          Pasiphaea propinqua
                          Pasiphaea rathbunae
                          Pasiphaea romenskyi
                          Pasiphaea sinensis
                          Pasiphaea sirenkoi
                          Pasiphaea timofeevi
                          Pasiphaea truncata
                          Pasiphaea unispinosa
                          Pasiphaea westindica
                        Psathyrocaris
                  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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