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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
                  Harpacticus
                    Harpacticus alevtinae
                    Harpacticus chelifer
                    Harpacticus compsonyx
                    Harpacticus depressus
                    Harpacticus flexulosus
                    Harpacticus flexus
                    Harpacticus giesbrechti
                    Harpacticus gracilis
                    Harpacticus littoralis
                    Harpacticus longiantennata
                    Harpacticus macrodactylus
                    Harpacticus nicaeensis
                    Harpacticus obscurus
                    Harpacticus ponticus
                    Harpacticus septentrionalis
                    Harpacticus tenellus
                    Harpacticus uniremis
                        Harpacticus uniremis uniremis
                        Harpacticus uniremis japonicus
                    Harpacticus virescens
                    Harpacticus acutifrons
                    Harpacticus superflexus
                    Harpacticus dentatus
                    Harpacticus furcatus
                    Harpacticus furcifer
                    Harpacticus pulvinatus
                    Harpacticus robustus
                    Harpacticus aegialobates
                    Harpacticus bairdi
                    Harpacticus boehleri
                    Harpacticus clausi
                    Harpacticus compressus
                    Harpacticus confusus
                    Harpacticus cristatus
                    Harpacticus dezhnevi
                    Harpacticus dubitabilis
                    Harpacticus falklandi
                    Harpacticus fucicolus
                    Harpacticus glaber
                    Harpacticus gurneyi
                    Harpacticus islandicus
                    Harpacticus meridionalis
                    Harpacticus nipponicus
                    Harpacticus piriei
                    Harpacticus poppei
                    Harpacticus pulex
                    Harpacticus purpureus
                    Harpacticus simplex
                    Harpacticus xenus
                    Harpacticus arcticus
                    Harpacticus brevicornis
                    Harpacticus chauseica
                    Harpacticus concinnus
                    Harpacticus crassicornis
                    Harpacticus curticornis
                    Harpacticus elongatus
                    Harpacticus fortificationis
                    Harpacticus fulvus
                    Harpacticus helgolandicus
                    Harpacticus koenigi
                    Harpacticus linearis
                    Harpacticus nobilis
                    Harpacticus pacificus
                    Harpacticus parachelifer
                    Harpacticus roseus
                    Harpacticus sacer
                    Harpacticus spinosus
                    Harpacticus spinulosus
                    Harpacticus staphilinus
                    Harpacticus trisetosus
                    Harpacticus croni
                    Harpacticus gibba
                    Harpacticus aquilinus
                    Harpacticus pallaresae
                    Harpacticus sparticus
                  Perissocope
                  Tigriopus
                  Zaus
                  Harpacticellinae
                  Zausodiinae
                  Paratigriopus
                  Zausodes
                  Zausopsis
                  Discoharpacticus
                  Archizausodes
                  Arpacticus
                  Campella
                  Camptonyx
                  Handiella
                  Mucropedia
                  Neozausodes
                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
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Fungi
Protozoa
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Chromista
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