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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
        Mystacocarida
        Copepoda
          Progymnoplea
          Neocopepoda
            Gymnoplea
              Calanoida
                Acartiidae
                Aetideidae
                Arietellidae
                Augaptilidae
                    Augaptilina
                    Augaptilus
                    Centraugaptilus
                    Euaugaptilus
                      Euaugaptilus affinis
                      Euaugaptilus angustus
                      Euaugaptilus atlanticus
                      Euaugaptilus brodskyi
                      Euaugaptilus bullifer
                      Euaugaptilus clavatus
                      Euaugaptilus digitatus
                      Euaugaptilus elongatus
                      Euaugaptilus facilis
                      Euaugaptilus farrani
                      Euaugaptilus fecundus
                      Euaugaptilus filigerus
                      Euaugaptilus gibbus
                      Euaugaptilus gracilis
                      Euaugaptilus grandicornis
                      Euaugaptilus hecticus
                      Euaugaptilus humilis
                      Euaugaptilus hyperboreus
                      Euaugaptilus laticeps
                      Euaugaptilus latifrons
                      Euaugaptilus longicirrhus
                      Euaugaptilus longimanu
                      Euaugaptilus longiseta
                      Euaugaptilus magnus
                      Euaugaptilus maxillaris
                      Euaugaptilus mixtus
                      Euaugaptilus niveus
                      Euaugaptilus nodifrons
                      Euaugaptilus oblongus
                      Euaugaptilus palumbii
                      Euaugaptilus paroblongus
                      Euaugaptilus penicillatus
                      Euaugaptilus placitus
                      Euaugaptilus rectus
                      Euaugaptilus rigidus
                      Euaugaptilus roei
                      Euaugaptilus sarsi
                      Euaugaptilus similis
                      Euaugaptilus squamatus
                      Euaugaptilus tenuicaudis
                      Euaugaptilus tenuispinus
                      Euaugaptilus truncatus
                      Euaugaptilus vicinus
                      Euaugaptilus indicus
                      Euaugaptilus quaesitus
                      Euaugaptilus palumboi
                      Euaugaptilus fundatus
                      Euaugaptilus malacus
                      Euaugaptilus curtus
                      Euaugaptilus longimanus
                      Euaugaptilus aliquantus
                      Euaugaptilus antarcticus
                      Euaugaptilus austrinus
                      Euaugaptilus hadrocephalus
                      Euaugaptilus perasetosus
                      Euaugaptilus brevirostratus
                      Euaugaptilus diminutus
                      Euaugaptilus distinctus
                      Euaugaptilus fagettiae
                      Euaugaptilus fosaii
                      Euaugaptilus graciloides
                      Euaugaptilus hulsemannae
                      Euaugaptilus luxus
                      Euaugaptilus marginatus
                      Euaugaptilus matsuei
                      Euaugaptilus modestus
                      Euaugaptilus nudus
                      Euaugaptilus pachychaeta
                      Euaugaptilus pacificus
                      Euaugaptilus parabullifer
                      Euaugaptilus sublongiseta
                      Euaugaptilus unisetosus
                      Euaugaptilus validus
                      Euaugaptilus vescus
                      Euaugaptilus atlantica
                      Euaugaptilus longiantennalis
                      Euaugaptilus perodiosus
                      Euaugaptilus propinquus
                      Euaugaptilus pseudaffinis
                      Euaugaptilus rostratus
                      Euaugaptilus similis
                    Haloptilus
                    Heteroptilus
                    Pachyptilus
                    Pseudaugaptilus
                    Pseudhaloptilus
                    Pontoptilus
                    Alrhabdus
                    Hemicalanus
                    Neoaugaptilus
                    Pseudohaloptilus
                Bathypontiidae
                Calanidae
                Candaciidae
                Centropagidae
                Clausocalanidae
                Diaixidae
                Discoidae
                Eucalanidae
                Euchaetidae
                Heterorhabdidae
                Lucicutiidae
                Mecynoceridae
                Megacalanidae
                Mesaiokeratidae
                Metridinidae
                Paracalanidae
                Parapontellidae
                Phaennidae
                Phyllopodidae
                Pontellidae
                Pseudocyclopidae
                Pseudocyclopiidae
                Pseudodiaptomidae
                Ridgewayiidae
                Ryocalanidae
                Scolecitrichidae
                Spinocalanidae
                Stephidae
                Temoridae
                Tharybidae
                Pseudocalanidae
                Calocalanidae
                Nullosetigeridae
                Rhincalanidae
                Kyphocalanidae
                Rostrocalanidae
            Podoplea
          Thaumatopsylloida
        Branchiura
        Tantulocarida
        Thecostraca
        Pentastomida
      Malacostraca
      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