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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
  Ctenophora
  Cnidaria
  Sipuncula
  Echiura
  Pogonophora
  Entoprocta
  Tardigrada
  Phoronida
  Brachiopoda
  Echinodermata
    Crinozoa
    Asterozoa
    Echinozoa
      Echinoidea
        Euechinoidea
        Perischoechinoidea
        Echinoidea incertae sedis
        Cidaroidea
          Cidaroida
            Cidaridea
              Cidaridae
                Cidarinae
                    Cidaris
                      Cidaris (Diadema)
                      Cidaris affinis
                      Cidaris borealis
                      Cidaris cidaris
                      Cidaris papillata
                      Cidaris pustulosa
                      Cidaris Stokesii
                      Cidaris tribuloides
                      Cidaris thouarsii
                      Cidaris annulata
                      Cidaris baculosa
                      Cidaris hystrix
                      Cidaris tubaria
                      Cidaris fustigera
                      Cidaris radiata
                      Cidaris metularia
                      Cidaris verticillata
                      Cidaris curvatispinis
                      Cidaris toreumatica
                      Cidaris canaliculata
                      Cidaris abyssicola
                      Cidaris blakei
                      Cidaris rugosa
                      Cidaris mabahissae
                      Cidaris nuda
                      Cidaris (Porocidaris)
                      Cidaris (Cidaris)
                      Cidaris (Discocidaris)
                      Cidaris (Dorocidaris)
                      Cidaris (Eucidaris)
                      Cidaris (Goniocidaris)
                      Cidaris (Gymnocidaris)
                      Cidaris (Histocidaris)
                      Cidaris (Leiocidaris)
                      Cidaris (Petalocidaris)
                      Cidaris (Phyllacanthus)
                      Cidaris (Rhabdocidaris)
                      Cidaris (Stephanocidaris)
                      Cidaris (Stereocidaris)
                      Cidaris angulosa
                      Cidaris angulosus
                      Cidaris araneiformis
                      Cidaris atratus
                      Cidaris benhami
                      Cidaris calamaria
                      Cidaris calamaris
                      Cidaris callao
                      Cidaris circinnata
                      Cidaris conferta
                      Cidaris danae
                      Cidaris esculenta
                      Cidaris fenestrata
                      Cidaris gracilis
                      Cidaris granulata
                      Cidaris hemisphaera
                      Cidaris histrix
                      Cidaris imperialis
                      Cidaris krohnii
                      Cidaris lima
                      Cidaris lucunter
                      Cidaris lütkeni
                      Cidaris mammillata
                      Cidaris mauri
                      Cidaris membranipora
                      Cidaris microtuberculata
                      Cidaris minor
                      Cidaris nutrix
                      Cidaris ornata
                      Cidaris parvispinis
                      Cidaris pistillaris
                      Cidaris purpurata
                      Cidaris reini
                      Cidaris rosaceus
                      Cidaris spinulosa
                      Cidaris tenuispina
                      Cidaris tenuispinus
                      Cidaris toreumatica
                      Cidaris variegata
                    Cidarites
                    Dorocidaris
                    Eucidaris
                    Kionocidaris
                    Lissocidaris
                    Calocidaris
                    Tretocidaris
                    Almucidaris
                    Centrocidaris
                    Chondrocidaris
                    Cyathocidaris
                    Hesperocidaris
                    Triassicidaris
                    Orthocidaris
                    Actinocidaris
                    Compsocidaris
                    Gymnocidaris
                    Schleinitzia
                    Chorocidaris
                    Cydaris
                Goniocidarinae
                Stereocidarinae
                Typocidarinae
                Phyllacanthina
                Plegiocidaris
                Minicidaris
                Abelleicidaris
                Stylocidarinae
              Ctenocidaridae
              Paurocidaridae
              Roseicidaridae
            Histocidaridea
            Diplocidaridae
            Miocidaridae
            Polycidaridae
            Rhabdocidaridae
            Serpianotiaridae
            Triadocidaridae
            Anisocidaridae
            Tetracidaridae
            Nenoticidaridae
        Palaeozoic Echinoidea
        Glyphostoma
      Holothuroidea
  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