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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
            Podoplea
              Cyclopoida
              Harpacticoida
                Adenopleurellidae
                Aegisthidae
                Ambunguipedidae
                Ameiridae
                Ancorabolidae
                Arenopontiidae
                Argestidae
                Balaenophilidae
                Canthocamptidae
                Canuellidae
                Cerviniidae
                Cletodidae
                Cletopsyllidae
                Clytemnestridae
                Cristacoxidae
                Cylindropsyllidae
                Danielsseniidae
                Darcythompsoniidae
                Diosaccidae
                Ectinosomatidae
                Euterpinidae
                Harpacticidae
                Huntemanniidae
                Laophontidae
                Laophontopsidae
                Latiremidae
                Leptastacidae
                Leptopontiidae
                Longipediidae
                Louriniidae
                Metidae
                Miraciidae
                Neobradyidae
                Normanellidae
                Novocriniidae
                Orthopsyllidae
                Paramesochridae
                Parastenheliidae
                Parastenocarididae
                Peltidiidae
                Phyllognathopodidae
                Porcellidiidae
                Psammopsyllidae
                Rhizothricidae
                Rotundiclipeidae
                Superornatiremidae
                Tachidiidae
                Tegastidae
                Tetragonicepsidae
                    Aigondiceps
                    Laophontella
                    Paraschizopera
                    Phyllopodopsyllus
                      Phyllopodopsyllus berrieri
                      Phyllopodopsyllus bradyi
                      Phyllopodopsyllus briani
                      Phyllopodopsyllus curtus
                      Phyllopodopsyllus danielae
                      Phyllopodopsyllus furciger
                      Phyllopodopsyllus hardingi
                      Phyllopodopsyllus hibernicus
                      Phyllopodopsyllus laspalmensis
                      Phyllopodopsyllus laticauda
                      Phyllopodopsyllus longicaudatus
                      Phyllopodopsyllus longipalpatus
                      Phyllopodopsyllus medius
                      Phyllopodopsyllus pauli
                      Phyllopodopsyllus thiebaudi
                      Phyllopodopsyllus paramossmani
                      Phyllopodopsyllus mossmani
                      Phyllopodopsyllus aegypticus
                      Phyllopodopsyllus minor
                      Phyllopodopsyllus alatus
                      Phyllopodopsyllus ancylus
                      Phyllopodopsyllus angolensis
                      Phyllopodopsyllus armatus
                      Phyllopodopsyllus bahamensis
                      Phyllopodopsyllus bermudae
                      Phyllopodopsyllus biarticulatus
                      Phyllopodopsyllus borutskyi
                      Phyllopodopsyllus carinatus
                      Phyllopodopsyllus chavei
                      Phyllopodopsyllus crenulatus
                      Phyllopodopsyllus galapagoensis
                      Phyllopodopsyllus geddesi
                      Phyllopodopsyllus gertrudi
                      Phyllopodopsyllus gracilipes
                      Phyllopodopsyllus hermani
                      Phyllopodopsyllus intermedius
                      Phyllopodopsyllus kunzi
                      Phyllopodopsyllus langi
                      Phyllopodopsyllus mielkei
                      Phyllopodopsyllus minutus
                      Phyllopodopsyllus opisthoceratus
                      Phyllopodopsyllus paraborutzkyi
                      Phyllopodopsyllus parabradyi
                      Phyllopodopsyllus parafurciger
                      Phyllopodopsyllus paraxenus
                      Phyllopodopsyllus petkovskii
                      Phyllopodopsyllus pirgos
                      Phyllopodopsyllus ponticus
                      Phyllopodopsyllus punctatus
                      Phyllopodopsyllus setouchiensis
                      Phyllopodopsyllus simplex
                      Phyllopodopsyllus stigmosus
                      Phyllopodopsyllus tenuis
                      Phyllopodopsyllus hartmannorum
                      Phyllopodopsyllus pallaresae
                      Phyllopodopsyllus tristanensis
                      Phyllopodopsyllus xenus
                      Phyllopodopsyllus yucatanensis
                      Phyllopodopsyllus wellsi
                      Phyllopodopsyllus trichophorus
                    Protogoniceps
                    Pteropsyllus
                    Tetragoniceps
                    Diagoniceps
                    Oniscopsis
                    Odaginiceps
                    Godianiceps
                    Anguloceps
                    Fearia
                    Mwania
                    Neogoniceps
                    Nidiagoceps
                    Paraphyllopodopsyllus
                    Willeyella
                Thalestridae
                Thompsonulidae
                Tisbidae
                Zosimeidae
                Paranannopidae
                Ectinosomidae
                Pseudopeltidiidae
                Pteropsyllidae
                Rhynchothalestridae
                Pseudotachidiidae
                Idyanthidae
                Dactylopusiidae
                Ismardiidae
                Metahuntemanniidae
                Heteropsyllidae
                Parameiropsidae
                Nannopodidae
                Idyaeidae
              Poecilostomatoida
              Siphonostomatoida
              Monstrilloida
              Misophrioida
              Mormonilloida
          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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