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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
  Ctenophora
  Cnidaria
    Anthozoa
      Hexacorallia
        Actiniaria
        Ceriantharia
        Corallimorpharia
        Scleractinia
        Zoanthidea
        Antipatharia
          Antipathidae
              Antipathes
                Antipathes dichotoma
                Antipathes erinaceus
                Antipathes fragilis
                Antipathes furcata
                Antipathes mediterranea
                Antipathes punctata
                Antipathes spinescens
                Antipathes subpinnata
                Antipathes wollastoni
                Antipathes glaberrima
                Antipathes americana
                Antipathes arborea
                Antipathes assimilis
                Antipathes atlantica
                Antipathes brooki
                Antipathes caribbeana
                Antipathes ceylonensis
                Antipathes chamaemorus
                Antipathes chota
                Antipathes columnaris
                Antipathes contorta
                Antipathes curvata
                Antipathes cylindrica
                Antipathes delicatula
                Antipathes dendrochristos
                Antipathes densa
                Antipathes elegans
                Antipathes flabellum
                Antipathes fruticosa
                Antipathes galapagensis
                Antipathes gallensis
                Antipathes glutinata
                Antipathes gracilis
                Antipathes grandiflora
                Antipathes grandis
                Antipathes grayi
                Antipathes herdmanni
                Antipathes indistincta
                Antipathes irregularis
                Antipathes irregularis
                Antipathes lenta
                Antipathes lentipinna
                Antipathes longibrachiata
                Antipathes minor
                Antipathes nilanduensis
                Antipathes pauroclema
                Antipathes plana
                Antipathes plantagenista
                Antipathes pseudodichotoma
                Antipathes regularis
                Antipathes rhipidion
                Antipathes rubra
                Antipathes rubusiformis
                Antipathes salicoides
                Antipathes sarothrum
                Antipathes sealarki
                Antipathes sibogae
                Antipathes simplex
                Antipathes simpsoni
                Antipathes speciosa
                Antipathes spinulosa
                Antipathes tenuispina
                Antipathes ternatensis
                Antipathes thamnoides
                Antipathes umbratica
                Antipathes valdiviae
                Antipathes viminalis
                Antipathes virgata
                Antipathes zoothallus
                Antipathes robillardi
                Antipathes flexibilis
                Antipathes clathrata
                Antipathes ericoides
                Antipathes humilis
                Antipathes thyoides
                Antipathes pedata
                Antipathes salix
                Antipathes filix
                Antipathes abietina
                Antipathes expansa
                Antipathes rigida
                Antipathes reticulata
                Antipathes heterorhodzos
                Antipathes aperta
                Antipathes fiordensis
                Antipathes strigosa
                Antipathes abies
                Antipathes paniculata
                Antipathes pumila
                Antipathes antrocrada
                Antipathes bifaria
                Antipathes japonica
                Antipathes lata
                Antipathes myriophylla
                Antipathes panamensis
                Antipathes ulex
                Antipathes fernandezi
                Antipathes pennacea
                Antipathes hirta
                Antipathes squamosa
                Antipathes tanacetum
                Antipathes thamnea
                Antipathes lilliei
                Antipathes larix
                Antipathes tetrasticha
                Antipathes arctica
                Antipathes desbonni
                Antipathes intermedia
                Antipathes bifaria
              Stichopathes
              Allopathes
              Arachnopathes
              Hillopathes
              Pteropathes
          Cladopathidae
        Ceriantipatharia
        Ptychodactiaria
      Octocorallia
      Zoantharia
    Hydrozoa
    Cnidaria incertae sedis
    Cubozoa
    Scyphozoa
    Staurozoa
  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