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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
                Lubbockiidae
                Macrochironidae
                Mesoglicolidae
                Myicolidae
                Mytilicolidae
                Nereicolidae
                Octopicolidae
                Oncaeidae
                Pharodidae
                Philichthyidae
                    Colobomatoides
                    Colobomatus
                      Colobomatus agassizi
                      Colobomatus baraldii
                      Colobomatus benazzii
                      Colobomatus canthari
                      Colobomatus denticis
                      Colobomatus doderleini
                      Colobomatus edwardsi
                      Colobomatus fiatolae
                      Colobomatus grubei
                      Colobomatus haeckeli
                      Colobomatus labracis
                      Colobomatus lichiae
                      Colobomatus mugilis
                      Colobomatus mulli
                      Colobomatus muraenae
                      Colobomatus oblatae
                      Colobomatus pagelli
                      Colobomatus pagri
                      Colobomatus sciaenae
                      Colobomatus sieboldi
                      Colobomatus sparsi
                      Colobomatus steenstrupi
                      Colobomatus vallei
                      Colobomatus minimus
                      Colobomatus richiardi
                      Colobomatus belizensis
                      Colobomatus caribbei
                      Colobomatus collettei
                      Colobomatus creeveyae
                      Colobomatus cresseyi
                      Colobomatus cribbi
                      Colobomatus deltotus
                      Colobomatus embiotocae
                      Colobomatus exilis
                      Colobomatus fusiformis
                      Colobomatus gietzelae
                      Colobomatus goodingi
                      Colobomatus gymnoscopeli
                      Colobomatus hispidus
                      Colobomatus icopaius
                      Colobomatus kyphosus
                      Colobomatus lamnae
                      Colobomatus lesteri
                      Colobomatus mackayi
                      Colobomatus mylionus
                      Colobomatus nanus
                      Colobomatus ornatus
                      Colobomatus pupa
                      Colobomatus quadrifarius
                      Colobomatus rothae
                      Colobomatus sewelli
                      Colobomatus sillaginis
                      Colobomatus springeri
                      Colobomatus bergyltae
                      Colobomatus doederleini
                      Colobomatus similis
                      Colobomatus arabicus
                      Colobomatus asiaticus
                      Colobomatus charleah
                      Colobomatus fulloonae
                      Colobomatus westi
                      Colobomatus tenuis
                      Colobomatus miniprocessus
                    Leposphilus
                    Lernaeascus
                    Philichthys
                    Sphaerifer
                    Ichthyotaces
                    Polyrrhynchus
                    Procolobomatus
                    Sarcotaces
                    Sphaerosoma
                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