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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 martia martia
                            Plesionika martia orientalis
                        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