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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
                Eunicicolidae
                Gastrodelphyidae
                Herpyllobiidae
                Intramolgidae
                Lamippidae
                Lichomolgidae
                    Astericola
                    Epimolgus
                    Herrmannella
                    Lichomolgella
                    Lichomolgides
                    Lichomolgidium
                    Lichomolgus
                    Modiolicola
                    Stellicola
                      Stellicola hochbergi
                      Stellicola asterinae
                      Stellicola acanthasteris
                      Stellicola affinis
                      Stellicola astrivagus
                      Stellicola dentifer
                      Stellicola femineus
                      Stellicola flexilis
                      Stellicola illgi
                      Stellicola kossmanni
                      Stellicola kossmanniana
                      Stellicola longiseta
                      Stellicola novaecaledoniae
                      Stellicola oreastriphilus
                      Stellicola parvulipes
                      Stellicola pichoni
                      Stellicola pleurobranchi
                      Stellicola pollex
                      Stellicola semperi
                      Stellicola stebbingi
                      Stellicola thorelli
                      Stellicola caeruleus
                      Stellicola alabatensis
                      Stellicola astropectinis
                      Stellicola clausi
                      Stellicola curticaudatus
                      Stellicola frequens
                      Stellicola gracilis
                      Stellicola holothuriae
                      Stellicola lankensis
                      Stellicola lautus
                      Stellicola luidiae
                      Stellicola elegans
                      Stellicola longicaudatus
                      Stellicola antheneae
                      Stellicola orbicularis
                      Stellicola paracarens
                    Zygomolgus
                    Heteranthessius
                    Alimeda
                    Ascidioxynus
                    Boeckia
                    Boholia
                    Botulosoma
                    Debruma
                    Diogenella
                    Diogenidium
                    Gelastomolgus
                    Henicoxiphium
                    Humesulus
                    Ischnurella
                    Linckiomolgus
                    Megasanoixus
                    Megasanonys
                    Neomenicola
                    Paclabius
                    Paralichomolgus
                    Parapanaietis
                    Paraphiloconcha
                    Parastericola
                    Philoconcha
                    Pseudolichomolgus
                    Pterioidicola
                    Sepicola
                    Synstellicola
                    Zygomolgides
                    Pseudoanthessius
                    Lobomolgus
                    Protomolgus
                    Dontimolgus
                    Pseudomolgus
                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