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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
                Heterorhabdidae
                    Disseta
                    Hemirhabus
                    Heterorhabdus
                      Heterorhabdus abyssalis
                      Heterorhabdus clausi
                      Heterorhabdus compactus
                      Heterorhabdus norvegicus
                      Heterorhabdus papilliger
                      Heterorhabdus robustus
                      Heterorhabdus spinifer
                      Heterorhabdus spinifrons
                      Heterorhabdus tenuis
                      Heterorhabdus vipera
                      Heterorhabdus tanneri
                      Heterorhabdus austrinus
                      Heterorhabdus pustulifer
                      Heterorhabdus americanus
                      Heterorhabdus ankylocolus
                      Heterorhabdus atlanticus
                      Heterorhabdus brevicornis
                      Heterorhabdus caribbeanensis
                      Heterorhabdus cohibilis
                      Heterorhabdus confusibilis
                      Heterorhabdus egregius
                      Heterorhabdus fistulosus
                      Heterorhabdus guineanensis
                      Heterorhabdus habrosomus
                      Heterorhabdus heterolobus
                      Heterorhabdus insukae
                      Heterorhabdus lobatus
                      Heterorhabdus longisegmentus
                      Heterorhabdus oikoumenikis
                      Heterorhabdus pacificus
                      Heterorhabdus paraspinosus
                      Heterorhabdus profundus
                      Heterorhabdus prolatus
                      Heterorhabdus prolixus
                      Heterorhabdus quadrilobus
                      Heterorhabdus spinosus
                      Heterorhabdus subspinifrons
                      Heterorhabdus tropicus
                      Heterorhabdus tuberculus
                      Heterorhabdus brevicaudatus
                      Heterorhabdus compactoides
                      Heterorhabdus farrani
                      Heterorhabdus grandis
                      Heterorhabdus latus
                      Heterorhabdus longispinus
                      Heterorhabdus medianus
                      Heterorhabdus nigrotinctus
                      Heterorhabdus proximus
                      Heterorhabdus robustoides
                      Heterorhabdus angulata
                      Heterorhabdus clausii
                      Heterorhabdus grimaldii
                      Heterorhabdus longicornis
                      Heterorhabdus major
                      Heterorhabdus pilosus
                      Heterorhabdus vicinus
                      Heterorhabdus viperus
                      Heterorhabdus zetesios
                      Heterorhabdus medius
                      Heterorhabdus dubius
                      Heterorhabdus devius
                    Heterostylites
                    Mesorhabdus
                    Microdisseta
                    Neorhabdus
                    Hemirhabdus
                    Paraheterorhabdus
                    Alloiorhabdus
                    Heterochaeta
                    Macrorhabdus
                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