Oxygen-carrying pigments
| Pigment | Metal in the prosthetic group | Color of pigment | Example of animals | |
| Hemoglobin | Iron | red | vertebrate | Plasma or cells |
| Hemocyanin | Copper | blue | arthropods | plasma |
| Chlorocruorin | iron | green | annelid | plasma |
| Hemerythrin | iron | violet-pink | sipunculids, priapulids, brachiopods | Cells or plasma |
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