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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
    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
                Krithidae
                Leptocytheridae
                Limnocytheridae
                Loxoconchidae
                    Cytheromorpha
                    Elofsonia
                    Hirschmannia
                    Loxoconcha
                      Loxoconcha agilis
                      Loxoconcha alata
                      Loxoconcha avellana
                      Loxoconcha bairdi
                      Loxoconcha bonaducei
                      Loxoconcha concentrica
                      Loxoconcha dimorpha
                      Loxoconcha elliptica
                      Loxoconcha exagona
                      Loxoconcha fragilis
                      Loxoconcha geometrica
                      Loxoconcha gibberosa
                      Loxoconcha globosa
                      Loxoconcha helgolandica
                      Loxoconcha levis
                      Loxoconcha malcomsoni
                      Loxoconcha mediterranea
                      Loxoconcha minima
                      Loxoconcha ovulata
                      Loxoconcha parallela
                      Loxoconcha pontica
                      Loxoconcha rhomboidea
                      Loxoconcha rubritincta
                      Loxoconcha stellifera
                      Loxoconcha subrugosa
                      Loxoconcha impressa
                      Loxoconcha guttata
                      Loxoconcha multifora
                      Loxoconcha kosugii
                      Loxoconcha parvifoveata
                      Loxoconcha granulata
                      Loxoconcha pusilla
                      Loxoconcha banesensis
                      Loxoconcha dorsotuberculata
                      Loxoconcha fischeri
                      Loxoconcha matagordensis
                      Loxoconcha moralesi
                      Loxoconcha ochlockoneensis
                      Loxoconcha postdorsoalata
                      Loxoconcha sarasotana
                      Loxoconcha tricornata
                      Loxoconcha wilberti
                      Loxoconcha abditocostata
                      Loxoconcha achloropsia
                      Loxoconcha adriatica
                      Loxoconcha aestuarii
                      Loxoconcha affinis
                      Loxoconcha africana
                      Loxoconcha albaniensis
                      Loxoconcha algicola
                      Loxoconcha amygdalanux
                      Loxoconcha anderseni
                      Loxoconcha australis
                      Loxoconcha bamen
                      Loxoconcha binhaiensis
                      Loxoconcha brevis
                      Loxoconcha broomensis
                      Loxoconcha bullata
                      Loxoconcha bulgarica
                      Loxoconcha caerulea
                      Loxoconcha chanjanga
                      Loxoconcha chihjeni
                      Loxoconcha chinyen
                      Loxoconcha chinzeii
                      Loxoconcha chiushihi
                      Loxoconcha convexa
                      Loxoconcha crassella
                      Loxoconcha crispatum
                      Loxoconcha cumula
                      Loxoconcha cuscutella
                      Loxoconcha cyclomena
                      Loxoconcha dampierensis
                      Loxoconcha decipiens
                      Loxoconcha drosobulba
                      Loxoconcha elegantula
                      Loxoconcha emelwardensis
                      Loxoconcha epeterseni
                      Loxoconcha eruptetia
                      Loxoconcha fluctushumboldti
                      Loxoconcha georgei
                      Loxoconcha gibbera
                      Loxoconcha gigantica
                      Loxoconcha gilli
                      Loxoconcha gracilis
                      Loxoconcha gruendeli
                      Loxoconcha haoshihi
                      Loxoconcha harimensis
                      Loxoconcha hastata
                      Loxoconcha hattorii
                      Loxoconcha heronislandensis
                      Loxoconcha hsiyu
                      Loxoconcha hsunshao
                      Loxoconcha huahineensis
                      Loxoconcha insulaecapricornensis
                      Loxoconcha japonica
                      Loxoconcha jiantao
                      Loxoconcha kattoi
                      Loxoconcha kitanipponica
                      Loxoconcha kueishengi
                      Loxoconcha lacunensis
                      Loxoconcha laeta
                      Loxoconcha lapidiscola
                      Loxoconcha lenticulata
                      Loxoconcha lilljeborgii
                      Loxoconcha magnipustulosa
                      Loxoconcha malayensis
                      Loxoconcha mandviensis
                      Loxoconcha maosuii
                      Loxoconcha megapora
                      Loxoconcha metacrispata
                      Loxoconcha metarugosa
                      Loxoconcha mitoui
                      Loxoconcha modesta
                      Loxoconcha moses
                      Loxoconcha nana
                      Loxoconcha naneri
                      Loxoconcha neotaiwanica
                      Loxoconcha nitida
                      Loxoconcha nozokiensis
                      Loxoconcha oculocrista
                      Loxoconcha optima
                      Loxoconcha orientalica
                      Loxoconcha ornatovalvae
                      Loxoconcha ozawai
                      Loxoconcha paiki
                      Loxoconcha panyinga
                      Loxoconcha parahuahindensis
                      Loxoconcha parameridionalis
                      Loxoconcha pashihaiensis
                      Loxoconcha pendulosa
                      Loxoconcha pennatus
                      Loxoconcha peterseni
                      Loxoconcha pleistocenica
                      Loxoconcha propontica
                      Loxoconcha prunulla
                      Loxoconcha pseudolea
                      Loxoconcha pulchra
                      Loxoconcha pumicosa
                      Loxoconcha punctata
                      Loxoconcha punctata
                      Loxoconcha punctatella
                      Loxoconcha purisubrhomboidea
                      Loxoconcha radixis
                      Loxoconcha sagittula
                      Loxoconcha schusterae
                      Loxoconcha sinensis
                      Loxoconcha subcirculata
                      Loxoconcha subkotoraforma
                      Loxoconcha suboculocrista
                      Loxoconcha susannehayesae
                      Loxoconcha suteri
                      Loxoconcha szuchunga
                      Loxoconcha tachangfui
                      Loxoconcha taiwanensis
                      Loxoconcha tamakazura
                      Loxoconcha tamarindoidea
                      Loxoconcha tarta
                      Loxoconcha tekkaliensis
                      Loxoconcha tosaensis
                      Loxoconcha tosamodesta
                      Loxoconcha trita
                      Loxoconcha tuberculosa
                      Loxoconcha tubmani
                      Loxoconcha tumida
                      Loxoconcha tumulosa
                      Loxoconcha tungchihi
                      Loxoconcha turbida
                      Loxoconcha turnerae
                      Loxoconcha uranouchiensis
                      Loxoconcha venepidermoidea
                      Loxoconcha variolata
                      Loxoconcha violacea
                      Loxoconcha viva
                      Loxoconcha walvisbaiensis
                      Loxoconcha williamsi
                      Loxoconcha wolunga
                      Loxoconcha wuchienna
                      Loxoconcha yilian
                      Loxoconcha zamia
                      Loxoconcha zhejiangensis
                      Loxoconcha magna
                      Loxoconcha meridionalis
                      Loxoconcha napoliana
                      Loxoconcha pellucida
                      Loxoconcha peterogona
                      Loxoconcha tuberosa
                      Loxoconcha laevior
                      Loxoconcha dubia
                      Loxoconcha rolnickii
                      Loxoconcha honoluliensis
                      Loxoconcha anomala
                      Loxoconcha subrhomboidea
                      Loxoconcha sculpta
                    Loxoconchidea
                    Microloxoconcha
                    Nannocythere
                    Palmoconcha
                    Roundstonia
                    Sagmatocythere
                    Tuberoloxoconcha
                    Myrena
                    Antarctiloxoconcha
                    Bonnyannella
                    Kuiperiana
                    Pteroloxa
                    Alataconcha
                    Australoloxoconcha
                    Bytholoxoconcha
                    Gouiecythere
                    Heinia
                    Loxoconchella
                    Loxocorniculum
                    Nipponocythere
                    Touroconcha
                    Loxocaudinae
                    Loxoconchinae
                    Mandelstamia
                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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