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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
                  Arenosetella
                  Bradya
                  Bradyellopsis
                  Ectinosoma
                  Ectinosomella
                  Ectinosomoides
                  Halectinosoma
                  Halophytophilus
                  Hastigerella
                  Klieosoma
                  Lineosoma
                  Microsetella
                  Noodtiella
                  Peltobradya
                  Pseudobradya
                      Pseudobradya acuta
                      Pseudobradya ambigua
                      Pseudobradya attenuata
                      Pseudobradya banyulensis
                      Pseudobradya beduina
                      Pseudobradya brevicaudata
                      Pseudobradya brevicornis
                      Pseudobradya digitata
                      Pseudobradya distinctum
                      Pseudobradya elegans
                      Pseudobradya exilis
                      Pseudobradya fusca
                      Pseudobradya hirsuta
                      Pseudobradya kusnezovi
                      Pseudobradya leptognatha
                      Pseudobradya major
                      Pseudobradya maxima
                      Pseudobradya minor
                      Pseudobradya oligochaeta
                      Pseudobradya parvula
                      Pseudobradya pectinifera
                      Pseudobradya peresi
                      Pseudobradya psammophila
                      Pseudobradya pulchella
                      Pseudobradya pygmaea
                      Pseudobradya rhea
                      Pseudobradya robusta
                      Pseudobradya scabriuscula
                      Pseudobradya similis
                      Pseudobradya soyeri
                      Pseudobradya spinulosa
                      Pseudobradya tenella
                      Pseudobradya truncatiseta
                      Pseudobradya proxima
                      Pseudobradya lanceta
                      Pseudobradya quoddiensis
                      Pseudobradya usitata
                      Pseudobradya cornuta
                      Pseudobradya crassipes
                      Pseudobradya pelobates
                      Pseudobradya pelegonos
                      Pseudobradya pelotrophos
                      Pseudobradya pulchera
                      Pseudobradya barroisi
                      Pseudobradya pelogonos
                      Pseudobradya arctica
                  Sigmatidium
                  Tetanopsis
                  Oikopus
                  Alophytophilus
                  Helectinsoma
                  Kliella
                  Parabradya
                  Pararadya
                  Pararenosetella
                  Chaulionyx
                  Glabrotelson
                  Halectinosoma
                  Glabrotelson
                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
                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
Viruses
Monera