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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
                  Galatheoidea
                    Galatheidae
                      Galathea
                        Galathea agassizii
                        Galathea bolivari
                        Galathea cenarroi
                        Galathea dispersa
                        Galathea faiali
                        Galathea intermedia
                            Galathea intermedia intermedia
                            Galathea intermedia parroceli
                        Galathea machadoi
                        Galathea nexa
                        Galathea rufipes
                        Galathea squamifera
                        Galathea strigosa
                        Galathea australiensis
                        Galathea mauritiana
                        Galathea orientalis
                        Galathea longimana
                        Galathea brevimana
                        Galathea genkai
                        Galathea capillata
                        Galathea venusta
                        Galathea wolffi
                        Galathea guttata
                        Galathea patae
                        Galathea aegyptiaca
                        Galathea albatrossae
                        Galathea amamiensis
                        Galathea amboinensis
                        Galathea anepipoda
                        Galathea balssi
                        Galathea bengala
                        Galathea bidens
                        Galathea bimaculata
                        Galathea boninensis
                        Galathea consobrina
                        Galathea continua
                        Galathea corallicola
                        Galathea coralliophilus
                        Galathea cymbulaerostris
                        Galathea formosa
                        Galathea hispida
                        Galathea inconspicua
                        Galathea inflata
                        Galathea keijii
                        Galathea kuboi
                        Galathea labidolepta
                        Galathea latirostris
                        Galathea lenis
                        Galathea leptocheir
                        Galathea longimanoides
                        Galathea lumaria
                        Galathea maculiabdominalis
                        Galathea magnifica
                        Galathea multilineata
                        Galathea ohshimai
                        Galathea omanensis
                        Galathea paucilineata
                        Galathea pilosa
                        Galathea platycheles
                        Galathea pubescens
                        Galathea quinquespinosa
                        Galathea robusta
                        Galathea rostrata
                        Galathea rubromaculata
                        Galathea spinimanus
                        Galathea spinosorostris
                        Galathea squamea
                        Galathea submagnifica
                        Galathea subsquamata
                        Galathea tanegashimae
                        Galathea ternatensis
                        Galathea tropis
                        Galathea vitiensis
                        Galathea whiteleggii
                        Galathea yamashitai
                        Galathea giardi
                        Galathea andrewsii
                        Galathea parroceli
                        Galathea pygmaea
                        Galathea spinigera
                        Galathea biunguiculata
                        Galathea denticulata
                        Galathea babai
                        Galathea sinensis
                        Galathea chura
                        Galathea barbellata
                        Galathea echinata
                        Galathea profunda
                        Galathea raventosae
                        Galathea sanctae
                      Lauriea
                      Macrothea
                    Porcellanidae
                    Munidopsidae
                    Munididae
                  Hippoidea
                  Paguroidea
                  Lithodoidea
                  Kiwaoidea
                  Chirostyloidea
                Brachyura
                Caridea
                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