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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
    Calcarea
    Hexactinellida
    Homoscleromorpha
    Porifera incertae sedis
    Demospongiae
      Ceractinomorpha
      Tetractinomorpha
      Dendroceratida
      Dictyoceratida
      Halichondrida
        Axinellidae
        Bubaridae
        Desmoxyidae
        Dictyonellidae
        Halichondriidae
            Amorphina
            Amorphinopsis
            Anisoxya
            Axinyssa
            Ciocalapata
            Ciocalypta
              Ciocalypta penicillus
              Ciocalypta aciculata
              Ciocalypta aderma
              Ciocalypta alba
              Ciocalypta alleni
              Ciocalypta confossa
              Ciocalypta digitata
              Ciocalypta expanda
              Ciocalypta gibbsi
              Ciocalypta hyalina
              Ciocalypta hyaloderma
              Ciocalypta massalis
              Ciocalypta melichlora
              Ciocalypta microstrongylata
              Ciocalypta novaezealandiae
              Ciocalypta oscitans
              Ciocalypta polymastia
              Ciocalypta porrecta
              Ciocalypta rutila
              Ciocalypta tyleri
              Ciocalypta heterostyla
              Ciocalypta dichotoma
              Ciocalypta mertoni
              Ciocalypta amorphosa
              Ciocalypta leei
              Ciocalypta weltneri
              Ciocalypta incrustans
              Ciocalypta calva
              Ciocalypta stalagmites
              Ciocalypta sacciformis
              Ciocalypta simplex
              Ciocalypta oculata
              Ciocalypta gracilis
              Ciocalypta carballoi
              Ciocalypta minuta
              Ciocalypta fenestrata
            Coelocalypta
            Eumastia
            Halichondria
            Hymeniacidon
            Laminospongia
            Leucophloeus
            Oxeostilon
            Pellina
            Pseudaxinyssa
            Rhaphidostyla
            Spongosorites
            Stylinos
            Stylotella
            Topsentia
            Vosmaeria
            Cryptax
            Epipolasis
            Thieleia
            Nailondria
            Prostylissa
            Amorphilla
            Apatospongia
            Aponastra
            Astromimus
            Axinomimus
            Cioxeamastia
            Collocalypta
            Halichondriella
            Menanetia
            Oxeosarcodea
            Raspaigella
            Spuma
            Stylohalina
            Tedanione
            Trachyopsilla
            Trachyopsis
            Uritaia
            Viles
            Halina
            Pseudohymeniacidon
            Rhaphoxiella
            Seriatula
            Tumata
            Callites
            Apathospongia
            Johannesia
            Sarcomella
        Hymeniacidonidae
        Heteroxyidae
        Phakellidae
        Scopalinidae
      Halisarcida
      Haplosclerida
      Poecilosclerida
      Verongida
      Astrophorida
      Chondrosida
      Hadromerida
      'Lithistida'
      Spirophorida
      Petrosida
      Nepheliospongida
      Choristida
      Axinellida
      Agelasida
      Demospongiae incertae sedis
      Verticillitida
      Keratosa
      Myxospongiae
      Gummineae
      Verongimorpha
      Tetractinellida
      Democlavia
    Sclerospongiae
    Hyalospongiae
    Calcispongiae
  Platyhelminthes
  Nematoda
  Annelida
  Nemertina
  Arthropoda
  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
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Chromista
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