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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
        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
                Phyllodicolidae
                Poecilostomatoida incertae sedis
                Pseudanthessiidae
                Rhynchomolgidae
                    Critomolgus
                    Doridicola
                      Doridicola actiniae
                      Doridicola agilis
                      Doridicola botulosus
                      Doridicola chlamydis
                      Doridicola hirsutipes
                      Doridicola longicauda
                      Doridicola trispinosus
                      Doridicola antheae
                      Doridicola astrophyticus
                      Doridicola caelatus
                      Doridicola capnellae
                      Doridicola connexus
                      Doridicola cylichnophorus
                      Doridicola dunnae
                      Doridicola hispidulus
                      Doridicola isoawamochi
                      Doridicola larani
                      Doridicola paterellis
                      Doridicola penicillatus
                      Doridicola petalopus
                      Doridicola pteropadus
                      Doridicola ptilosarci
                      Doridicola rostripes
                      Doridicola rumphellae
                      Doridicola scyphulanus
                      Doridicola senticauda
                      Doridicola titillans
                      Doridicola virgulariae
                      Doridicola vulcanius
                      Doridicola aculeatus
                      Doridicola antheliae
                      Doridicola audens
                      Doridicola brevifurcatus
                      Doridicola cincinnatus
                      Doridicola cinctus
                      Doridicola claudus
                      Doridicola commodus
                      Doridicola comparatus
                      Doridicola confinis
                      Doridicola congoensis
                      Doridicola cuspis
                      Doridicola echinasteris
                      Doridicola foxi
                      Doridicola gemmatus
                      Doridicola gracilipes
                      Doridicola hetaericus
                      Doridicola inaequalis
                      Doridicola inflatiseta
                      Doridicola lumarius
                      Doridicola magnificus
                      Doridicola micropus
                      Doridicola mimicus
                      Doridicola myorae
                      Doridicola patulus
                      Doridicola pertinax
                      Doridicola praelongipes
                      Doridicola securiger
                      Doridicola sepiae
                      Doridicola simplex
                      Doridicola singularipes
                      Doridicola spinulifer
                      Doridicola sunnivae
                      Doridicola tumalis
                      Doridicola venustus
                      Doridicola sensilis
                      Doridicola similis
                      Doridicola parvicaudatus
                      Doridicola comai
                      Doridicola parapatulus
                      Doridicola helmuti
                      Doridicola virgatus
                      Doridicola portincola
                      Doridicola brevipes
                      Doridicola buddhensis
                      Doridicola bulbipes
                      Doridicola fishelsoni
                      Doridicola rigidus
                    Paranthessius
                    Pennatulicola
                    Acanthomolgus
                    Alcyonomolgus
                    Anisomolgus
                    Ascetomolgus
                    Aspidomolgus
                    Calonastes
                    Colobomolgus
                    Contomolgus
                    Diallagomolgus
                    Emunoa
                    Eolidicola
                    Indomolgus
                    Isomolgus
                    Kombia
                    Lambanetes
                    Lutumidomus
                    Mandobius
                    Mecra
                    Meringomolgus
                    Metaxymolgus
                    Moluccomolgus
                    Monomolgus
                    Notoxynus
                    Numboa
                    Pachysericola
                    Paradoridicola
                    Paramolgus
                    Paredromolgus
                    Perosyna
                    Pionomolgus
                    Plesiomolgus
                    Ravahina
                    Rhynchomolgus
                    Solitaricola
                    Spaniomolgus
                    Telestacicola
                    Temnomolgus
                    Verutipes
                    Visayasia
                    Wedanus
                    Xenomolgus
                    Zamolgus
                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