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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
                Phyllopodidae
                Pontellidae
                Pseudocyclopidae
                Pseudocyclopiidae
                Pseudodiaptomidae
                Ridgewayiidae
                Ryocalanidae
                Scolecitrichidae
                    Amallothrix
                      Amallothrix arcuata
                      Amallothrix emarginata
                      Amallothrix falcifer
                      Amallothrix farrani
                      Amallothrix gracilis
                      Amallothrix paravalida
                      Amallothrix pseudoarcuata
                      Amallothrix robusta
                      Amallothrix sarsi
                      Amallothrix curticauda
                      Amallothrix indica
                      Amallothrix valida
                      Amallothrix obtusifrons
                      Amallothrix robustipes
                      Amallothrix mollis
                      Amallothrix auropecten
                      Amallothrix lobata
                      Amallothrix dentipes
                      Amallothrix parafalcifer
                      Amallothrix pseudopropinqua
                      Amallothrix aspinosa
                      Amallothrix invenusta
                      Amallothrix lobophora
                      Amallothrix longispina
                      Amallothrix aculeata
                      Amallothrix aequalis
                      Amallothrix altera
                      Amallothrix echinata
                      Amallothrix elephas
                      Amallothrix fowleri
                      Amallothrix globiceps
                      Amallothrix hadrosoma
                      Amallothrix ingolfi
                      Amallothrix inornata
                      Amallothrix laminata
                      Amallothrix pacifica
                      Amallothrix polaris
                      Amallothrix profunda
                      Amallothrix propinqua
                      Amallothrix tenuiserrata
                      Amallothrix valens
                      Amallothrix vervoorti
                      Amallothrix vorax
                      Amallothrix denticulata
                      Amallothrix lanceolata
                      Amallothrix modica
                      Amallothrix obscura
                      Amallothrix spinata
                      Amallothrix timida
                      Amallothrix tropica
                    Archescolecithrix
                    Heteramalla
                    Landrumius
                    Lophothrix
                    Mixtocalanus
                    Racovitzanus
                    Scaphocalanus
                    Scolecithricella
                    Scolecithrix
                    Scopalatum
                    Scottocalanus
                    Pseudophaenna
                    Brodskius
                    Byrathis
                    Cenognatha
                    Omorius
                    Paraxantharus
                    Plesioscolecithrix
                    Pseudoamallothrix
                    Scolecitrichopsis
                    Xantharus
                    Falsilandrumius
                    Grievella
                    Macandrewella
                    Bertalda
                    Bradfordiella
                    Parascaphocalanus
                    Puchinia
                    Scolecocalanus
                    Undinothrix
                    Diaiscolecithrix
                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