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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
  Hemichordata
  Chordata
    Urochordata
    Cephalochordata
    Vertebrata
      Gnathostomata
        Tetrapoda
        Pisces
          Elasmobranchii
          Actinopterygii
            Acipenseriformes
            Elopiformes
            Notacanthiformes
            Anguilliformes
              Anguillidae
                  Anguilla
                    Anguilla anguilla
                    Anguilla brevirostris
                    Anguilla rostrata
                    Anguilla bicolor
                    Anguilla bengalensis
                    Anguilla marmorata
                    Anguilla mossambica
                    Anguilla celebesensis
                    Anguilla dieffenbachii
                    Anguilla interioris
                    Anguilla japonica
                    Anguilla malgumora
                    Anguilla megastoma
                    Anguilla nebulosa
                    Anguilla nigricans
                    Anguilla obscura
                    Anguilla reinhardtii
                    Anguilla australis
                    Anguilla acutirostris
                    Anguilla aegyptiaca
                    Anguilla altirostris
                    Anguilla ancidda
                    Anguilla bibroni
                    Anguilla callensis
                    Anguilla canariensis
                    Anguilla capitone
                    Anguilla cloacina
                    Anguilla conger
                    Anguilla cuvieri
                    Anguilla eurystoma
                    Anguilla fluviatilis
                    Anguilla fluviatilis
                    Anguilla hibernica
                    Anguilla kieneri
                    Anguilla latirostris
                    Anguilla linnei
                    Anguilla marginata
                    Anguilla marina
                    Anguilla mediorostris
                    Anguilla melanochir
                    Anguilla microptera
                    Anguilla migratoria
                    Anguilla morena
                    Anguilla nilotica
                    Anguilla nilotica
                    Anguilla oblongirostris
                    Anguilla obtusa
                    Anguilla platycephala
                    Anguilla platyrhynchus
                    Anguilla savignyi
                    Anguilla septembrina
                    Anguilla vulgaris
                    Anguilla anguillia
                    Anguilla elphinstonei
                    Anguilla huangi
                    Anguilla luzonensis
                  Tribranchus
                  Angill
              Chlopsidae
              Congridae
              Derichthyidae
              Heterenchelyidae
              Muraenesocidae
              Muraenidae
              Nemichthyidae
              Nettastomatidae
              Ophichthidae
              Serrivomeridae
              Synaphobranchidae
              Protanguillidae
            Saccopharyngiformes
            Clupeiformes
            Osmeriformes
            Salmoniformes
            Stomiiformes
            Ateleopodiformes
            Aulopiformes
            Myctophiformes
            Lampriformes
            Polymixiiformes
            Gadiformes
            Ophidiiformes
            Batrachoidiformes
            Lophiiformes
            Gobiesociformes
            Atheriniformes
            Cyprinodontiformes
            Beloniformes
            Stephanoberyciformes
            Beryciformes
            Cetomimiformes
            Gasterosteiformes
            Syngnathiformes
            Scorpaeniformes
            Pleuronectiformes
            Tetraodontiformes
            Zeiformes
            Perciformes
            Mugiliformes
          Holocephali
      Agnatha
    Tunicata
  Gastrotricha
  Chaetognatha
  Ectoprocta
  Mesozoa
  Rotifera
  Gnathostomulida
  Acanthocephala
  Cycliophora
  Cephalorhyncha
  Placozoa
  Bryozoa
  Myxozoa
  Sipunculida
  Pentastomida
  Nemertini
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