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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
      Malacostraca
      Ostracoda
        Myodocopa
        Podocopa
          Podocopida
            Bairdiocopina
            Cytherocopina
              Cytheroidea
                Bythocytheridae
                Cuneocytheridae
                Cushmanideidae
                Cytherettidae
                Cytheridae
                Cytherideidae
                Cytheroidea incertae sedis
                Cytheromatidae
                Cytheruridae
                Eucytheridae
                Hemicytheridae
                    Aurila
                    Baffinicythere
                    Caudites
                    Elofsonella
                    Finmarchinella
                    Hemicythere
                      Hemicythere emarginata
                      Hemicythere rubida
                      Hemicythere villosa
                      Hemicythere crenulata
                      Hemicythere oblonga
                      Hemicythere angulata
                      Hemicythere borealis
                      Hemicythere brunnea
                      Hemicythere californiensis
                      Hemicythere conradi
                      Hemicythere costata
                      Hemicythere cymba
                      Hemicythere foveata
                      Hemicythere fulvotincta
                      Hemicythere gorokuensis
                      Hemicythere hornibrooki
                      Hemicythere kerguelensis
                      Hemicythere jollaensis
                      Hemicythere mirabilis
                      Hemicythere orientalis
                      Hemicythere packardi
                      Hemicythere palosensis
                      Hemicythere posterovestibulata
                      Hemicythere pulchella
                      Hemicythere sicula
                      Hemicythere variornata
                      Hemicythere borchersi
                      Hemicythere confragosa
                      Hemicythere munida
                      Hemicythere prava
                      Hemicythere fallax
                      Hemicythere speyeri
                      Hemicythere quadridentata
                      Hemicythere finmarchica
                      Hemicythere robusta
                      Hemicythere skogsbergi
                      Hemicythere taeniata
                      Hemicythere parvitenuis
                    Heterocythereis
                    Muellerina
                    Tenedocythere
                    Urocythereis
                    Hermanites
                    Harleya
                    Australicythere
                    Patagonacythere
                    Bradleya
                    Meridionalicythere
                    Austroaurila
                    Falklandia
                    Procythereis
                    Jugosocythereis
                    Malzella
                    Neocaudites
                    Orionina
                    Puriana
                    Radimella
                    Ambostracon
                    Anterocythere
                    Auradilus
                    Bensonocythere
                    Bosasella
                    Brasilicythere
                    Collarodontia
                    Cornucoquimba
                    Daishakacythere
                    Hemicytheria
                    Hemicytheridea
                    Jacobella
                    Johnnealella
                    Laperousecythere
                    Matsucythere
                    Nanocoquimba
                    Neobuntonia
                    Neohornibrookella
                    Neosinocythere
                    Nereina
                    Nodocoquimba
                    Palaciosa
                    Parahermanites
                    Paraquadracythere
                    Pseudoaurila
                    Robustaurila
                    Ruggiericythere
                    Shungyangella
                    Sinocythere
                    Sinoradimella
                    Tricoquimba
                    Tyrrhenocythere
                    Waiparacythereis
                    Yezocythere
                    Hemicytherinae
                    Favella
                    Reussicythere
                Krithidae
                Leptocytheridae
                Limnocytheridae
                Loxoconchidae
                Microcytheridae
                Neocytherideidae
                Paracytherideidae
                Paradoxostomatidae
                Trachyleberididae
                Xestoleberididae
                Xestoleberidae
                Terrestricytheridae
                Entocytheridae
                Australocytherideidae
                Cobanocytheridae
                Cytheralisonidae
                Kliellidae
                Osticytheridae
                Paracytheridae
                Parvocytheridae
                Pectocytheridae
                Protocytheridae
                Psammocytheridae
                Saididae
                Schizocytheridae
                Speluncellidae
                Thaerocytheridae
                Bonaducecytheridae
                Progonocytheridae
                Flexuocythere
            Cypridocopina
            Sigilliocopina
          Platycopida
          Palaeocopida
        Palaeocopa
      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
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