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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
      Halisarcida
      Haplosclerida
        Haplosclerina
          Callyspongiidae
          Chalinidae
          Niphatidae
              Cribrochalina
              Gelliodes
              Hemigellius
              Pachychalina
                Pachychalina rustica
                Pachychalina arctica
                Pachychalina fracta
                Pachychalina gracilenta
                Pachychalina gracilis
                Pachychalina schmidti
                Pachychalina acapulcensis
                Pachychalina glacialis
                Pachychalina aurantiaca
                Pachychalina brevispiculifera
                Pachychalina cellulosa
                Pachychalina decurtata
                Pachychalina delicatula
                Pachychalina dura
                Pachychalina elastica
                Pachychalina excelsa
                Pachychalina maresi
                Pachychalina micropora
                Pachychalina mollis
                Pachychalina reticulosa
                Pachychalina subcylindrica
                Pachychalina tenera
                Pachychalina variabilis
                Pachychalina densa
                Pachychalina conica
                Pachychalina conulosa
                Pachychalina hospitalis
                Pachychalina joubini
                Pachychalina lobata
                Pachychalina macrodactyla
                Pachychalina megalorrhaphis
                Pachychalina spinulosa
                Pachychalina tubulifera
                Pachychalina spinifera
                Pachychalina spinilamella
                Pachychalina spinosissima
                Pachychalina affinis
                Pachychalina elegans
                Pachychalina elongata
                Pachychalina lunae
                Pachychalina macrospina
                Pachychalina oculata
                Pachychalina paucispina
                Pachychalina ramulosa
                Pachychalina rigida
                Pachychalina punctata
                Pachychalina punctata
                Pachychalina magellanica
                Pachychalina validissima
                Pachychalina pedunculata
                Pachychalina monticulosa
                Pachychalina furcata
                Pachychalina compressa
                Pachychalina caulifera
                Pachychalina nigra
                Pachychalina diffusa
                Pachychalina fibrosa
                Pachychalina multiformis
                Pachychalina dura
                Pachychalina areolata
                Pachychalina limbata
                Pachychalina alveopora
                Pachychalina alcaloidifera
                Pachychalina subcapitata
                Pachychalina carbonaria
                Pachychalina rugosa
                Pachychalina melior
                Pachychalina erinacea
                Pachychalina odessana
              Amphimedon
              Dasychalina
              Haliclonissa
              Microxina
              Niphates
              Sigmaxinyssa
              Calyxadocia
              Hemihaliclona
              Plumocolumetta
          Haliclonidae
          Adociidae
          Renierinae
          Gelliadae
          Renieridae
          Gelliidae
          Gelliinae
          Cavochalinidae
          Tubulodigitidae
        Petrosina
      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
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera