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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
                    Archescolecithrix
                    Heteramalla
                    Landrumius
                    Lophothrix
                    Mixtocalanus
                    Racovitzanus
                    Scaphocalanus
                      Scaphocalanus affinis
                      Scaphocalanus amplius
                      Scaphocalanus angulifrons
                      Scaphocalanus bogorovi
                      Scaphocalanus brevicornis
                      Scaphocalanus brevirostris
                      Scaphocalanus curtus
                      Scaphocalanus echinatus
                      Scaphocalanus elongatus
                      Scaphocalanus insignis
                      Scaphocalanus invalidus
                      Scaphocalanus longifurca
                      Scaphocalanus magnus
                      Scaphocalanus medius
                      Scaphocalanus pseudobrevirostris
                      Scaphocalanus similis
                      Scaphocalanus subbrevicornis
                      Scaphocalanus subcurtus
                      Scaphocalanus major
                      Scaphocalanus acrocephalus
                      Scaphocalanus polaris
                      Scaphocalanus antarcticus
                      Scaphocalanus farrani
                      Scaphocalanus impar
                      Scaphocalanus parantarcticus
                      Scaphocalanus vervoorti
                      Scaphocalanus acutocornis
                      Scaphocalanus australis
                      Scaphocalanus californicus
                      Scaphocalanus difficilis
                      Scaphocalanus gracilicauda
                      Scaphocalanus insolitus
                      Scaphocalanus minuta
                      Scaphocalanus pacificus
                      Scaphocalanus paraustralis
                      Scaphocalanus subelongatus
                      Scaphocalanus acuminatus
                      Scaphocalanus cristatus
                      Scaphocalanus elegans
                      Scaphocalanus glacialis
                      Scaphocalanus globiceps
                      Scaphocalanus obscurus
                      Scaphocalanus obtusifrons
                      Scaphocalanus robustus
                      Scaphocalanus temporalis
                      Scaphocalanus validus
                      Scaphocalanus somaliensis
                      Scaphocalanus emine
                    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