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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
                Mecynoceridae
                Megacalanidae
                Mesaiokeratidae
                Metridinidae
                Paracalanidae
                Parapontellidae
                Phaennidae
                    Brachycalanus
                    Cephalophanes
                    Cornucalanus
                    Onchocalanus
                    Phaenna
                    Talacalanus
                    Xanthocalanus
                      Xanthocalanus agilis
                      Xanthocalanus borealis
                      Xanthocalanus claviger
                      Xanthocalanus difficilis
                      Xanthocalanus echinatus
                      Xanthocalanus fallax
                      Xanthocalanus giesbrechti
                      Xanthocalanus incertus
                      Xanthocalanus minor
                      Xanthocalanus mixtus
                      Xanthocalanus muticus
                      Xanthocalanus obtusus
                      Xanthocalanus pinguis
                      Xanthocalanus profundus
                      Xanthocalanus propinquus
                      Xanthocalanus subagilis
                      Xanthocalanus tenuiremis
                      Xanthocalanus hispidus
                      Xanthocalanus greeni
                      Xanthocalanus antarcticus
                      Xanthocalanus gracilis
                      Xanthocalanus harpagatus
                      Xanthocalanus tenuiserratus
                      Xanthocalanus laptevorum
                      Xanthocalanus alvinae
                      Xanthocalanus amabilis
                      Xanthocalanus atlanticus
                      Xanthocalanus calaminus
                      Xanthocalanus cristatus
                      Xanthocalanus dilatus
                      Xanthocalanus distinctus
                      Xanthocalanus elongatus
                      Xanthocalanus fragilis
                      Xanthocalanus greenii
                      Xanthocalanus groenlandicus
                      Xanthocalanus kurilensis
                      Xanthocalanus legatus
                      Xanthocalanus macrocephalon
                      Xanthocalanus magnus
                      Xanthocalanus marlyae
                      Xanthocalanus maximus
                      Xanthocalanus medius
                      Xanthocalanus multispinus
                      Xanthocalanus ordinarius
                      Xanthocalanus paraincertus
                      Xanthocalanus paululus
                      Xanthocalanus pavlovskii
                      Xanthocalanus pectinatus
                      Xanthocalanus penicillatus
                      Xanthocalanus polaris
                      Xanthocalanus pulcher
                      Xanthocalanus similis
                      Xanthocalanus simplex
                      Xanthocalanus soaresmoreirai
                      Xanthocalanus squamatus
                      Xanthocalanus substriatus
                      Xanthocalanus tectus
                      Xanthocalanus watersae
                      Xanthocalanus cornifer
                      Xanthocalanus crassirostris
                      Xanthocalanus hirtipes
                      Xanthocalanus irritans
                      Xanthocalanus macilenta
                      Xanthocalanus oculatus
                      Xanthocalanus rotundus
                      Xanthocalanus serratus
                      Xanthocalanus typicus
                      Xanthocalanus simplex
                      Xanthocalanus meteorae
                      Xanthocalanus quasiprofundus
                      Xanthocalanus stewarti
                      Xanthocalanus longispinus
                      Xanthocalanus cryeri
                      Xanthocalanus affinis
                      Xanthocalanus alterus
                      Xanthocalanus dubius
                      Xanthocalanus elegans
                      Xanthocalanus impar
                      Xanthocalanus obtusifrons
                      Xanthocalanus robustus
                      Xanthocalanus smithae
                      Xanthocalanus subbrevicornis
                      Xanthocalanus brevicornis
                      Xanthocalanus globiceps
                      Xanthocalanus validus
                    Amallophora
                    Kirnesius
                    Phaennocalanus
                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