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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
              Poecilostomatoida
                Anomoclausiidae
                Antheacheridae
                Anthessiidae
                Bomolochidae
                Catiniidae
                Chondracanthidae
                Clausidiidae
                Clausiidae
                Corycaeidae
                Entobiidae
                Ergasilidae
                    Ergasilus
                      Ergasilus gibbus
                      Ergasilus lizae
                      Ergasilus ponticus
                      Ergasilus labracis
                      Ergasilus manicatus
                      Ergasilus amplectens
                      Ergasilus australiensis
                      Ergasilus baikalensis
                      Ergasilus biuncinatus
                      Ergasilus borneoensis
                      Ergasilus clupeidarum
                      Ergasilus cochlearius
                      Ergasilus coleus
                      Ergasilus confusus
                      Ergasilus cyanopictus
                      Ergasilus cyprinaceus
                      Ergasilus elegans
                      Ergasilus euripedesi
                      Ergasilus fragilis
                      Ergasilus gasterostei
                      Ergasilus hoferi
                      Ergasilus inflatipes
                      Ergasilus japonicus
                      Ergasilus lagunaris
                      Ergasilus longipalpus
                      Ergasilus minor
                      Ergasilus monodi
                      Ergasilus mugilis
                      Ergasilus myctarothes
                      Ergasilus nigritus
                      Ergasilus ogawai
                      Ergasilus orientalis
                      Ergasilus osburni
                      Ergasilus parvitergum
                      Ergasilus pitalicus
                      Ergasilus polynemi
                      Ergasilus rostralis
                      Ergasilus rotundicorpus
                      Ergasilus semicoleus
                      Ergasilus skrjabini
                      Ergasilus spatulus
                      Ergasilus spinilaminatus
                      Ergasilus spinipes
                      Ergasilus turgidus
                      Ergasilus uniseriatus
                      Ergasilus vembanadensis
                      Ergasilus nanus
                      Ergasilus depressus
                      Ergasilus efficatus
                      Ergasilus felichthys
                      Ergasilus osmeri
                      Ergasilus suboculatus
                      Ergasilus thomseni
                      Ergasilus trisetoceus
                      Ergasilus pakistanicus
                      Ergasilus intermedius
                      Ergasilus parabahiensis
                      Ergasilus acusicestraeus
                      Ergasilus piriformis
                      Ergasilus youngi
                      Ergasilus bani
                      Ergasilus divergens
                      Ergasilus philippinensis
                      Ergasilus davidi
                      Ergasilus kabatai
                      Ergasilus boleophthalmi
                    Nipergasilus
                    Dermoergasilus
                    Diergasilus
                    Ergasiluxulus
                    Limnoncaea
                    Macrobrachinus
                    Majalincola
                    Markewitschia
                    Megabrachinus
                    Mugilicola
                    Paeonodes
                    Teredophilus
                    Therodamas
                    Thersites
                    Vaigamus
                    Yamagutia
                Eunicicolidae
                Gastrodelphyidae
                Herpyllobiidae
                Intramolgidae
                Lamippidae
                Lichomolgidae
                Lubbockiidae
                Macrochironidae
                Mesoglicolidae
                Myicolidae
                Mytilicolidae
                Nereicolidae
                Octopicolidae
                Oncaeidae
                Pharodidae
                Philichthyidae
                Phyllodicolidae
                Poecilostomatoida incertae sedis
                Pseudanthessiidae
                Rhynchomolgidae
                Sabelliphilidae
                Saccopsidae
                Sapphirinidae
                Serpulidicolidae
                Spiophanicolidae
                Synapticolidae
                Synaptiphilidae
                Taeniacanthidae
                Ventriculinidae
                Xenocoelomidae
                Tuccidae
                Corallovexiidae
                Echiurophilidae
                Euniciolidae
                Paralubbockiidae
                Tegobomolochidae
                Umazuracolidae
                Xenocoelomatidae
                Lernaeosoleidae
                Melinnacheridae
                Pionodesmotidae
                Bradophilidae
                Abrsiidae
                Makrostrotidae
              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
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera