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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
                Bathypontiidae
                Calanidae
                Candaciidae
                Centropagidae
                Clausocalanidae
                Diaixidae
                Discoidae
                Eucalanidae
                Euchaetidae
                    Euchaeta
                      Euchaeta acuta
                      Euchaeta concinna
                      Euchaeta marina
                      Euchaeta media
                      Euchaeta pubera
                      Euchaeta spinosa
                      Euchaeta hebes
                      Euchaeta bisinuata
                      Euchaeta sarsi
                      Euchaeta longissima
                      Euchaeta barbata
                      Euchaeta abbreviata
                      Euchaeta scotti
                      Euchaeta bradyi
                      Euchaeta hanseni
                      Euchaeta gracilis
                      Euchaeta pseudotonsa
                      Euchaeta norvegica
                      Euchaeta incisa
                      Euchaeta glacialis
                      Euchaeta paraconcinna
                      Euchaeta tonsa
                      Euchaeta calva
                      Euchaeta robusta
                      Euchaeta dubia
                      Euchaeta tenuis
                      Euchaeta biloba
                      Euchaeta wolfendeni
                      Euchaeta malayensis
                      Euchaeta farrani
                      Euchaeta weberi
                      Euchaeta exigua
                      Euchaeta indica
                      Euchaeta longicornis
                      Euchaeta magniloba
                      Euchaeta marinella
                      Euchaeta paraacuta
                      Euchaeta plana
                      Euchaeta rimana
                      Euchaeta wrighti
                      Euchaeta affinis
                      Euchaeta alaminae
                      Euchaeta antarctica
                      Euchaeta arabica
                      Euchaeta austrina
                      Euchaeta biconvexa
                      Euchaeta californica
                      Euchaeta carinata
                      Euchaeta dactylifera
                      Euchaeta diegensis
                      Euchaeta elongata
                      Euchaeta eltaninae
                      Euchaeta flava
                      Euchaeta gladiofera
                      Euchaeta grandiremis
                      Euchaeta hansenii
                      Euchaeta japonica
                      Euchaeta murrayi
                      Euchaeta oceana
                      Euchaeta parvula
                      Euchaeta porrecta
                      Euchaeta propinqua
                      Euchaeta quadrata
                      Euchaeta regalis
                      Euchaeta rubicunda
                      Euchaeta russelli
                      Euchaeta scaphula
                      Euchaeta similis
                      Euchaeta trunculosa
                      Euchaeta tumidula
                      Euchaeta tycodesma
                      Euchaeta vervoorti
                      Euchaeta vorax
                      Euchaeta gracilicauda
                      Euchaeta acutifrons
                      Euchaeta aequatorialis
                      Euchaeta armata
                      Euchaeta atlantica
                      Euchaeta australis
                      Euchaeta birostrata
                      Euchaeta communis
                      Euchaeta comosa
                      Euchaeta confusa
                      Euchaeta consimilis
                      Euchaeta daitomarui
                      Euchaeta diadema
                      Euchaeta eminens
                      Euchaeta erebi
                      Euchaeta gigas
                      Euchaeta hessei
                      Euchaeta investigatoris
                      Euchaeta ovata
                      Euchaeta paraacuta
                      Euchaeta philippii
                      Euchaeta polita
                      Euchaeta prestandreae
                      Euchaeta prudens
                      Euchaeta pseudotumidula
                      Euchaeta pubescens
                      Euchaeta pulchra
                      Euchaeta rasa
                      Euchaeta simulantis
                      Euchaeta solida
                      Euchaeta sutherlandii
                      Euchaeta tuberculata
                      Euchaeta wilsoni
                      Euchaeta withi
                      Euchaeta spinifera
                      Euchaeta haswelli
                    Pareuchaeta
                    Paraeuchaeta
                    Paraechaeta
                    Euchaetopsis
                    Euchirus
                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
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