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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
    Turbellaria
    Monogenea
    Cestoda
      Eucestoda
        Caryophyllidea
        Cyclophyllidea
        Diphyllidea
        Lecanicephalidea
        Proteocephalidea
        Pseudophyllidea
        Spathebothriidea
        Tetrabothriidea
        Tetraphyllidea
          Chimaerocestidae
          Onchobothriidae
            Onchobothrium
            Platybothrium
            Acanthobothrium
                Acanthobothrium benedeni
                Acanthobothrium crassicolle
                Acanthobothrium dujardinii
                Acanthobothrium filicolle
                Acanthobothrium floridensis
                Acanthobothrium musculosum
                Acanthobothrium ponticum
                Acanthobothrium quadripartitum
                Acanthobothrium rajaebatis
                Acanthobothrium tripartitum
                Acanthobothrium zschokkei
                Acanthobothrium coronatum
                Acanthobothrium adlardi
                Acanthobothrium angelae
                Acanthobothrium arlenae
                Acanthobothrium bartonae
                Acanthobothrium blairi
                Acanthobothrium brayi
                Acanthobothrium cannoni
                Acanthobothrium chisholmae
                Acanthobothrium clarkeae
                Acanthobothrium cribbi
                Acanthobothrium edmondsi
                Acanthobothrium gasseri
                Acanthobothrium gibsoni
                Acanthobothrium gloveri
                Acanthobothrium guptai
                Acanthobothrium jonesi
                Acanthobothrium lasti
                Acanthobothrium laurenbrownae
                Acanthobothrium martini
                Acanthobothrium mooreae
                Acanthobothrium ocallaghani
                Acanthobothrium odonoghuei
                Acanthobothrium pichelinae
                Acanthobothrium robertsoni
                Acanthobothrium rohdei
                Acanthobothrium stevensi
                Acanthobothrium thomasae
                Acanthobothrium walkeri
                Acanthobothrium chiloscylli
                Acanthobothrium foulki
                Acanthobothrium gnomus
                Acanthobothrium larsoni
                Acanthobothrium lepidum
                Acanthobothrium tetabuanense
                Acanthobothrium wedli
                Acanthobothrium brevissime
                Acanthobothrium lintoni
                Acanthobothrium paulum
                Acanthobothrium tortum
                Acanthobothrium aetiobatidis
                Acanthobothrium amazonensis
                Acanthobothrium americanum
                Acanthobothrium annapinkiensis
                Acanthobothrium atahualpai
                Acanthobothrium aurangabadensis
                Acanthobothrium australis
                Acanthobothrium bajaensis
                Acanthobothrium batailloni
                Acanthobothrium bengalense
                Acanthobothrium beveridgei
                Acanthobothrium bifurcatum
                Acanthobothrium brachyacanthum
                Acanthobothrium bullardi
                Acanthobothrium campbelli
                Acanthobothrium cartagenensis
                Acanthobothrium cestracii
                Acanthobothrium cestraciontis
                Acanthobothrium chengai
                Acanthobothrium chilensis
                Acanthobothrium cimari
                Acanthobothrium cleofanus
                Acanthobothrium colombianum
                Acanthobothrium confusum
                Acanthobothrium coquimbensis
                Acanthobothrium costarricense
                Acanthobothrium dasi
                Acanthobothrium dasybati
                Acanthobothrium dighaensis
                Acanthobothrium dollyae
                Acanthobothrium dysbiotos
                Acanthobothrium edwardsi
                Acanthobothrium electricolum
                Acanthobothrium franus
                Acanthobothrium giganticum
                Acanthobothrium goldsteini
                Acanthobothrium gracile
                Acanthobothrium grandiceps
                Acanthobothrium hanumantharaoi
                Acanthobothrium herdmani
                Acanthobothrium heterodonti
                Acanthobothrium himanturi
                Acanthobothrium hispidum
                Acanthobothrium holorhini
                Acanthobothrium icelandicum
                Acanthobothrium ijimai
                Acanthobothrium inbiorium
                Acanthobothrium incognita
                Acanthobothrium indiana
                Acanthobothrium indicum
                Acanthobothrium intermedium
                Acanthobothrium karachiense
                Acanthobothrium latum
                Acanthobothrium leuckaertii
                Acanthobothrium lilium
                Acanthobothrium lineatum
                Acanthobothrium longipedunculata
                Acanthobothrium lusarmientoi
                Acanthobothrium macracanthum
                Acanthobothrium macrocephalum
                Acanthobothrium maculatum
                Acanthobothrium magnum
                Acanthobothrium manteri
                Acanthobothrium marplatensis
                Acanthobothrium maryanskii
                Acanthobothrium marymichaelorum
                Acanthobothrium mathiasi
                Acanthobothrium micracantha
                Acanthobothrium microcephalum
                Acanthobothrium minus
                Acanthobothrium minusculus
                Acanthobothrium monksi
                Acanthobothrium mujibi
                Acanthobothrium myliomaculata
                Acanthobothrium nicoyaense
                Acanthobothrium obuncus
                Acanthobothrium oceanharvestae
                Acanthobothrium olseni
                Acanthobothrium palligerum
                Acanthobothrium parviuncinatum
                Acanthobothrium parvum
                Acanthobothrium pearsoni
                Acanthobothrium pintanensis
                Acanthobothrium popi
                Acanthobothrium psammobati
                Acanthobothrium puertecitense
                Acanthobothrium puntarenasense
                Acanthobothrium quinonesi
                Acanthobothrium rajivi
                Acanthobothrium regoi
                Acanthobothrium rhinobati
                Acanthobothrium robustum
                Acanthobothrium rodmani
                Acanthobothrium romanowi
                Acanthobothrium rovi
                Acanthobothrium rubrum
                Acanthobothrium santarosaliense
                Acanthobothrium semnovesiculum
                Acanthobothrium septentrionale
                Acanthobothrium soberoni
                Acanthobothrium southwelli
                Acanthobothrium tasajerasi
                Acanthobothrium terezae
                Acanthobothrium triacis
                Acanthobothrium tsingtaoensis
                Acanthobothrium uncinatum
                Acanthobothrium unilateralis
                Acanthobothrium urogymni
                Acanthobothrium urolophi
                Acanthobothrium urotrygoni
                Acanthobothrium vergasi
                Acanthobothrium verticillatum
                Acanthobothrium waltairensis
                Acanthobothrium woodsholei
                Acanthobothrium xiamenensis
                Acanthobothrium zapaterycum
                Acanthobothrium zimmeri
                Acanthobothrium zugeinensis
            Calliobothrium
          Oncobothriidae
          Phyllobothriidae
          Prosobothriidae
          Tetraphyllidea incertae sedis
        Trypanorhyncha
        Eucestoda incertae sedis
    Catenulida
    Trematoda
  Nematoda
  Annelida
  Nemertina
  Arthropoda
  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