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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
                  Mecynocera
                  Acrocalanus
                  Calocalanus
                      Calocalanus adriaticus
                      Calocalanus africanus
                      Calocalanus alboranus
                      Calocalanus atlanticus
                      Calocalanus contractus
                      Calocalanus elegans
                      Calocalanus elongatus
                      Calocalanus fusiformis
                      Calocalanus gresei
                      Calocalanus indicus
                      Calocalanus kristalli
                      Calocalanus latus
                      Calocalanus lomonosovi
                      Calocalanus longisetosus
                      Calocalanus longispinus
                      Calocalanus minor
                      Calocalanus nambiensis
                      Calocalanus neptunus
                      Calocalanus omaniensis
                      Calocalanus ovalis
                      Calocalanus paracontractus
                      Calocalanus parelongatus
                      Calocalanus pavo
                      Calocalanus pavoninus
                      Calocalanus plumatus
                      Calocalanus pseudocontractus
                      Calocalanus styliremis
                      Calocalanus tenuiculus
                      Calocalanus vivesi
                      Calocalanus plumulosus
                      Calocalanus tenuis
                      Calocalanus antarcticus
                      Calocalanus fiolenti
                      Calocalanus gracilis
                      Calocalanus aculeatus
                      Calocalanus beklemishevi
                      Calocalanus curtus
                      Calocalanus dellacrocei
                      Calocalanus equalicauda
                      Calocalanus longifurca
                      Calocalanus minutus
                      Calocalanus monospinus
                      Calocalanus namibiensis
                      Calocalanus nanus
                      Calocalanus pubes
                      Calocalanus pyriformis
                      Calocalanus regini
                      Calocalanus sayademalja
                      Calocalanus spinosus
                      Calocalanus vinogradovi
                      Calocalanus vitjazi
                      Calocalanus vivesei
                  Delius
                  Ischnocalanus
                  Paracalanus
                  Dolichocera
                  Leptocalanus
                  Bestiola
                  Bestiolina
                  Dolichocerea
                  Parvocalanus
                  Piezocalanus
                  Pseudoparacalanus
                  Andronovius
                  Delibus
                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
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