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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
  Sipuncula
  Echiura
  Pogonophora
  Entoprocta
  Tardigrada
  Phoronida
  Brachiopoda
  Echinodermata
  Hemichordata
  Chordata
    Urochordata
    Cephalochordata
    Vertebrata
    Tunicata
      Ascidiacea
        Aplousobranchia
        Phlebobranchia
        Stolidobranchia
          Molgulidae
          Pyuridae
          Styelidae
              Alloeocarpa
              Bathyoncus
              Bathystyeloides
              Botrylloides
              Botryllus
              Cnemidocarpa
              Dendrodoa
              Dicarpa
              Distomus
              Eusynstyela
              Kukenthalia
              Pelonaia
              Polyandrocarpa
              Polycarpa
              Protostyela
              Psammostyela
              Seriocarpa
              Stolonica
              Styela
                Styela adriatica
                Styela atlantica
                Styela bathybia
                Styela calva
                Styela canopus
                Styela chaini
                Styela charcoti
                Styela clava
                Styela coriacea
                Styela crinita
                Styela gelatinosa
                Styela gibbsii
                Styela loculosa
                Styela partita
                Styela plicata
                Styela rustica
                Styela sigma
                Styela similis
                Styela thalassae
                Styela glans
                Styela squamosa
                Styela wandeli
                Styela materna
                Styela marquesana
                Styela radicata
                Styela prolifera
                Styela miniata
                Styela costata
                Styela aequatorialis
                Styela angularis
                Styela pupa
                Styela montereyensis
                Styela longitubis
                Styela asterogama
                Styela barnharti
                Styela brevigaster
                Styela changa
                Styela clavata
                Styela complexa
                Styela eurygaster
                Styela gagetyleri
                Styela grahami
                Styela hemicaespitosa
                Styela izuana
                Styela kottae
                Styela longiducta
                Styela longipedata
                Styela macrenteron
                Styela magalhaensis
                Styela mallei
                Styela meandria
                Styela meteoris
                Styela minima
                Styela monogamica
                Styela natalis
                Styela ordinaria
                Styela paessleri
                Styela polypes
                Styela psoliformis
                Styela schmitti
                Styela serpentina
                Styela subpinguis
                Styela suluensis
                Styela talpina
                Styela tenuibranchia
                Styela tesseris
                Styela tokiokai
                Styela truncata
                Styela uniplicata
                Styela yakutatensis
                Styela argillacea
                Styela glebosa
                Styela herdmani
                Styela perforata
                Styela profunda
                Styela psammodes
                Styela sedata
                Styela traustedti
                Styela cylindrica
                Styela hadalis
                Styela multitentaculata
                Styela depressa
                Styela elata
                Styela aggregata
                Styela albomarginata
                Styela anguinea
                Styela aomori
                Styela apalina
                Styela appropinquata
                Styela arctica
                Styela areolata
                Styela argentata
                Styela armata
                Styela ascidioides
                Styela asiphonica
                Styela asymmetra
                Styela aurata
                Styela aurita
                Styela barbaris
                Styela bathyphila
                Styela bicolor
                Styela bicornuta
                Styela biforis
                Styela brevipedunculata
                Styela bythia
                Styela canopoides
                Styela captiosa
                Styela cartilaginea
                Styela cerea
                Styela circumarata
                Styela clara
                Styela coerulea
                Styela comata
                Styela conica
                Styela contecta
                Styela convexa
                Styela cryptocarpa
                Styela curtzei
                Styela cylindriformis
                Styela doliolum
                Styela drygalskii
                Styela elsa
                Styela esther
                Styela etheridgii
                Styela exigua
                Styela fertilis
                Styela fibrillata
                Styela finmarkiensis
                Styela flava
                Styela flexibilis
                Styela floccosa
                Styela friabilis
                Styela fuliginea
                Styela gracilocarpa
                Styela grandis
                Styela granulata
                Styela greeleyi
                Styela grossularia
                Styela gyrosa
                Styela humilis
                Styela hupferi
                Styela incubita
                Styela informis
                Styela insinuosa
                Styela insulsa
                Styela irene
                Styela irma
                Styela joannae
                Styela kroboja
                Styela lactea
                Styela lapidosa
                Styela lineata
                Styela lobata
                Styela longata
                Styela loveni
                Styela lovenii
                Styela macrogastra
                Styela maculata
                Styela mammiculata
                Styela maroccana
                Styela melincae
                Styela milleri
                Styela mollis
                Styela monoceros
                Styela natalensis
                Styela nidrosiensis
                Styela nisiotis
                Styela nivosa
                Styela nordenskjöldi
                Styela northumbrica
                Styela nutrix
                Styela oblonga
                Styela obscura
                Styela obtecta
                Styela ohlini
                Styela oligocarpa
                Styela olitoria
                Styela opalina
                Styela orbicularis
                Styela papillata
                Styela partito
                Styela pavementis
                Styela pedata
                Styela personata
                Styela pfefferi
                Styela phaula
                Styela pigmentata
                Styela pinguis
                Styela plata
                Styela pneumonodes
                Styela procera
                Styela psoloessa
                Styela quadrangularis
                Styela quadrata
                Styela quidni
                Styela ramificata
                Styela rectangularis
                Styela reducta
                Styela reniformis
                Styela rhizopus
                Styela robusta
                Styela rotunda
                Styela rubida
                Styela rubra
                Styela sabulifera
                Styela salebrosa
                Styela seminuda
                Styela sericata
                Styela solvens
                Styela sobria
                Styela spectabilis
                Styela spirifera
                Styela steineni
                Styela stephensoni
                Styela stimpsoni
                Styela stolonifera
                Styela sulcatula
                Styela theeli
                Styela thelyphanes
                Styela tholiformis
                Styela tinaktae
                Styela tuberosa
                Styela variabilis
                Styela verrucosa
                Styela vestita
                Styela violacea
                Styela whiteleggei
                Styela whiteleggii
                Styela personata
                Styela radicosa
                Styela etheridgii
                Styela stolonifera
                Styela bermudensis
                Styela pinguis
                Styela papillata
                Styela ambonensis
                Styela palinorsa
                Styela patens
                Styela pustulosa
                Styela spiralis
              Tibitin
              Minostyela
              Polyzoa
              Metrocarpa
              Dextrocarpa
              Gynandrocarpa
              Metandrocarpa
              Symplegma
              Amphicarpa
              Alcyonium
              Alleocarpa
              Arnbackia
              Asterocarpa
              Azygocarpa
              Berillia
              Botryllocarpa
              Botryorchis
              Chorizocarpa
              Chorizocormus
              Clavellinopsis
              Diandrocarpa
              Dictyostyela
              Glandula
              Goniocarpa
              Goodsiria
              Katatropa
              Michaelsenia
              Molstyela
              Monandrocarpa
              Monoandrocarpa
              Monobotryllus
              Myxobotrus
              Oculinaria
              Okamia
              Oligocarpa
              Pandocia
              Parabotryllus
              Polycyclus
              Protobotryllus
              Psammobotrus
              Psilostyela
              Redikorzevia
              Sarcobotrylloides
              Styeloides
              Styelopsis
              Syncarpa
              Synstyela
              Theodorella
              Thylacium
              Vannamea
              Ypsilocarpa
              Podostyela
          Hexacrobylidae
      Larvacea
      Sorberacea
      Thaliacea
      Appendicularia
  Gastrotricha
  Chaetognatha
  Ectoprocta
  Mesozoa
  Rotifera
  Gnathostomulida
  Acanthocephala
  Cycliophora
  Cephalorhyncha
  Placozoa
  Bryozoa
  Myxozoa
  Sipunculida
  Pentastomida
  Nemertini
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
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