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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
                  Ameira
                    Ameira atlantica
                        Ameira atlantica atlantica
                        Ameira atlantica mediterranea
                    Ameira divagans
                    Ameira exigua
                    Ameira listensis
                    Ameira longipes
                    Ameira lusitanica
                    Ameira minuta
                    Ameira parascotti
                    Ameira parvula
                    Ameira parvuloides
                    Ameira pusilla
                    Ameira reducta
                    Ameira scotti
                    Ameira speciosa
                    Ameira tenuicornis
                    Ameira usitata
                    Ameira brevipes
                    Ameira hyalina
                    Ameira tenella
                    Ameira curviseta
                    Ameira longicaudata
                    Ameira spinipes
                    Ameira ambigua
                    Ameira amphibia
                    Ameira arenicola
                    Ameira attenuata
                    Ameira bathyalis
                    Ameira breviremis
                    Ameira confluens
                    Ameira divergens
                    Ameira dubia
                    Ameira elegans
                    Ameira exilis
                    Ameira faroensis
                    Ameira gracile
                    Ameira gracilis
                    Ameira grandis
                    Ameira gravellicola
                    Ameira hiddensoensis
                    Ameira intermedia
                    Ameira littoralis
                    Ameira longifurca
                    Ameira minor
                    Ameira parasimulans
                    Ameira parva
                    Ameira pestae
                    Ameira phaedra
                    Ameira propinqua
                    Ameira sibogae
                    Ameira simplex
                    Ameira simulans
                    Ameira tenuipes
                    Ameira trisetosa
                    Ameira ariana
                    Ameira bengalensis
                    Ameira boecki
                    Ameira gracilimana
                    Ameira leptoderma
                    Ameira longiremis
                    Ameira tau
                    Ameira reflexa
                    Ameira tenuiremis
                    Ameira marina
                    Ameira longispina
                  Ameiropsis
                  Ameiropsyllus
                  Anoplosoma
                  Filexilia
                  Haifameira
                  Interleptomesochra
                  Leptomesochra
                  Limameira
                  Malacopsyllus
                  Parevansula
                  Proameira
                  Psammameira
                  Pseudameira
                  Pseudoleptomesochrella
                  Pseudosarsameira
                  Psyllocamptus
                  Sarsameira
                  Sicameira
                  Stenocopia
                  Pseudoameiropsis
                  Psammoleptomesochra
                  Abnitocrella
                  Glabrameira
                  Leptameira
                  Mesochrella
                  Nitocrameira
                  Parameira
                  Philoleptomesochra
                  Transfuga
                  Anoplosomella
                  Ameiropsyllus
                  Leptameira
                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
                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
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