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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
    Chelicerata
      Arachnida
        Acarina
          Prostigmata
            Pontarachnidae
            Halacaroidea
              Halacaridae
                  Acarochelopodia
                  Actacarus
                  Anomalohalacarus
                  Copidognathides
                  Copidognathus
                  Agaue
                  Agauides
                  Agauopsis
                  Arhodeoporus
                  Atelopsalis
                  Bathyhalacarus
                  Bradyagaue
                  Camactognathus
                  Coloboceras
                  Colobocerasides
                  Halacarellus
                  Halacaropsis
                  Halacarus
                  Parhalixodes
                  Pelacarus
                  Thalassarachna
                  Werthella
                  Lohmannella
                  Scaptognathus
                  Isobactrus
                  Metarhombognathus
                  Rhombognathides
                  Rhombognathus
                    Rhombognathus conjunctus
                    Rhombognathus intermedius
                    Rhombognathus karlvietsi
                    Rhombognathus lionyx
                    Rhombognathus magnirostris
                    Rhombognathus notops
                    Rhombognathus paranotops
                    Rhombognathus parvulus
                    Rhombognathus peltatus
                    Rhombognathus ponticus
                    Rhombognathus praegracilis
                    Rhombognathus procerus
                    Rhombognathus sphaerorhynchus
                    Rhombognathus subtilis
                    Rhombognathus tonops
                    Rhombognathus adeliensis
                    Rhombognathus ambiguus
                    Rhombognathus apsteini
                    Rhombognathus tener
                    Rhombognathus vulgaris
                    Rhombognathus bulbosus
                    Rhombognathus major
                    Rhombognathus aspidotus
                    Rhombognathus arenarius
                    Rhombognathus atuy
                    Rhombognathus auster
                    Rhombognathus biscutatus
                    Rhombognathus caribaeus
                    Rhombognathus caudiculus
                    Rhombognathus cebuus
                    Rhombognathus compressus
                    Rhombognathus cyrtonotus
                    Rhombognathus darwini
                    Rhombognathus delicatulus
                    Rhombognathus dictyotus
                    Rhombognathus dispar
                    Rhombognathus dissociatus
                    Rhombognathus ellipticus
                    Rhombognathus eltanini
                    Rhombognathus ezoensis
                    Rhombognathus felicis
                    Rhombognathus foveolatus
                    Rhombognathus fractus
                    Rhombognathus glaber
                    Rhombognathus gressitti
                    Rhombognathus guamensis
                    Rhombognathus heterosetosus
                    Rhombognathus hirtellus
                    Rhombognathus incertus
                    Rhombognathus insularis
                    Rhombognathus lacunosus
                    Rhombognathus latens
                    Rhombognathus lateralis
                    Rhombognathus lathridius
                    Rhombognathus latibulus
                    Rhombognathus lepidus
                    Rhombognathus leurodactylus
                    Rhombognathus levigatoides
                    Rhombognathus levigatus
                    Rhombognathus litoralis
                    Rhombognathus longipes
                    Rhombognathus longiscutatus
                    Rhombognathus longisetus
                    Rhombognathus lubricellus
                    Rhombognathus marginalis
                    Rhombognathus medialis
                    Rhombognathus multisetosus
                    Rhombognathus neotenus
                    Rhombognathus neptunellus
                    Rhombognathus notopsoides
                    Rhombognathus novaezelandicus
                    Rhombognathus oblongus
                    Rhombognathus ocularis
                    Rhombognathus pacificus
                    Rhombognathus papuensis
                    Rhombognathus pectinatus
                    Rhombognathus petraeus
                    Rhombognathus placidus
                    Rhombognathus Trouessart
                    Rhombognathus psammophilus
                    Rhombognathus pseudolionyx
                    Rhombognathus reticulatus
                    Rhombognathus reticulifer
                    Rhombognathus robustus
                    Rhombognathus sandwichi
                    Rhombognathus scutulatus
                    Rhombognathus semiarmatus
                    Rhombognathus seminotatus
                    Rhombognathus semireticulatus
                    Rhombognathus setellus
                    Rhombognathus setifer
                    Rhombognathus similis
                    Rhombognathus sinensis
                    Rhombognathus sinensoideus
                    Rhombognathus tenuiformis
                    Rhombognathus tericulus
                    Rhombognathus terminalis
                    Rhombognathus teurinus
                    Rhombognathus thalassinus
                    Rhombognathus validipes
                    Rhombognathus ventralis
                    Rhombognathus verrucosus
                    Rhombognathus denticulatus
                    Rhombognathus longirostris
                    Rhombognathus solus
                    Rhombognathus mayseri
                  Acaromantis
                  Simognathus
                  Acanthohalacarus
                  Acanthopalpus
                  Mictognathus
                  Leptospathis
                  Acarothrix
                  Arenihalacarus
                  Astacopsiphagus
                  Australacarus
                  Corallihalacarus
                  Enterohalacarus
                  Halacaroides
                  Hamohalacarus
                  Himejacarus
                  Lobohalacarus
                  Parasoldanellonyx
                  Peregrinacarus
                  Phacacrus
                  Pontacarus
                  Porohalacarus
                  Porolohmannella
                  Pseudosoldanellonyx
                  Rhombognathopsis
                  Ropohalacarus
                  Scaptognathides
                  Soldanellonyx
                  Spongihalacarus
                  Stygohalacarus
                  Thalassacarus
                  Thallassopthirius
                  Tropihalacarus
                  Velardoacarus
                  Werthelloides
                  Winlundia
                  Xenohalacarus
                  Halixodes
                  Limnohalacarus
                  Makarovana
        Pseudoscorpiones
        Acari
      Pycnogonida
    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
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Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
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