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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
                Lucicutiidae
                    Lucicutia
                      Lucicutia anomala
                      Lucicutia bicornuta
                      Lucicutia clausi
                      Lucicutia curta
                      Lucicutia flavicornis
                      Lucicutia formosa
                      Lucicutia gaussae
                      Lucicutia gemina
                      Lucicutia intermedia
                      Lucicutia longicornis
                      Lucicutia longiserrata
                      Lucicutia longispina
                      Lucicutia lucida
                      Lucicutia macrocera
                      Lucicutia magna
                      Lucicutia maxima
                      Lucicutia ovalis
                      Lucicutia parva
                      Lucicutia pellucida
                      Lucicutia pera
                      Lucicutia sarsi
                      Lucicutia tenuicauda
                      Lucicutia wolfendeni
                      Lucicutia major
                      Lucicutia pallida
                      Lucicutia aurita
                      Lucicutia rara
                      Lucicutia grandis
                      Lucicutia bella
                      Lucicutia polaris
                      Lucicutia sewelli
                      Lucicutia simulans
                      Lucicutia flavicomis
                      Lucicutia bradyana
                      Lucicutia anisofurcata
                      Lucicutia biuncata
                      Lucicutia cinerea
                      Lucicutia curvifurcata
                      Lucicutia hulsemannae
                      Lucicutia longifurca
                      Lucicutia oblonga
                      Lucicutia orientalis
                      Lucicutia paraclausi
                      Lucicutia profunda
                      Lucicutia pseudopolaris
                      Lucicutia ushakovi
                      Lucicutia atlantica
                      Lucicutia challengeri
                      Lucicutia ellipsoidalis
                      Lucicutia frigida
                      Lucicutia gigantissima
                      Lucicutia gracilis
                      Lucicutia ovaliformis
                      Lucicutia pacifica
                      Lucicutia philyra
                      Lucicutia clausii
                      Lucicutia scopularis
                      Lucicutia longisetosa
                    Isochaeta
                    Leuckartia
                    Rudolfia
                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
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Fungi
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Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
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