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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
    Calcarea
    Hexactinellida
    Homoscleromorpha
    Porifera incertae sedis
    Demospongiae
      Ceractinomorpha
      Tetractinomorpha
      Dendroceratida
      Dictyoceratida
      Halichondrida
      Halisarcida
      Haplosclerida
      Poecilosclerida
        Microcionina
          Iophonidae
          Microcionidae
            Microcioninae
                Cornulotrocha
                Clathria
                Hymantho
                Microciona
                  Microciona ambigua
                  Microciona angularis
                  Microciona armata
                  Microciona ascendens
                  Microciona assimilis
                  Microciona atrasanguinea
                  Microciona ctenichela
                  Microciona dives
                  Microciona duplex
                  Microciona elliptichela
                  Microciona fallax
                  Microciona fictitia
                  Microciona frogeti
                  Microciona haplotoxa
                  Microciona heterotoxa
                  Microciona intexta
                  Microciona laevis
                  Microciona levii
                  Microciona longispiculum
                  Microciona osismica
                  Microciona poecilosclera
                  Microciona simplicima
                  Microciona spinarcus
                  Microciona spinulenta
                  Microciona strepsitoxa
                  Microciona toxirecta
                  Microciona toxistyla
                  Microciona toxivaria
                  Microciona prolifera
                  Microciona pusilla
                  Microciona minutula
                  Microciona fascispiculifera
                  Microciona carnosa
                  Microciona bihamigera
                  Microciona quadriradiatum
                  Microciona quinqueradiatum
                  Microciona mortenseni
                  Microciona pyramidalis
                  Microciona aceratoobtusa
                  Microciona affinis
                  Microciona africana
                  Microciona anonyma
                  Microciona basispinosa
                  Microciona cleistochela
                  Microciona coccinea
                  Microciona dendyi
                  Microciona densa
                  Microciona fraudator
                  Microciona gradalis
                  Microciona ixauda
                  Microciona kentii
                  Microciona longistyla
                  Microciona macrochela
                  Microciona microjoanna
                  Microciona micronesia
                  Microciona namibiensis
                  Microciona novaezealandiae
                  Microciona parthena
                  Microciona plinthina
                  Microciona rarispinosa
                  Microciona sigmoidea
                  Microciona similis
                  Microciona simpsoni
                  Microciona spinatoxa
                  Microciona spinosa
                  Microciona tenuis
                  Microciona toximajor
                  Microciona toxitenuis
                  Microciona dubia
                  Microciona maunaloa
                  Microciona robusta
                  Microciona tuberosa
                  Microciona clathrata
                  Microciona discreta
                  Microciona plana
                  Microciona bulboretorta
                  Microciona haematodes
                  Microciona microchela
                  Microciona virgula
                  Microciona heterospiculata
                  Microciona curvispiculifera
                  Microciona tumulosa
                  Microciona venosa
                  Microciona rubens
                  Microciona monticularis
                  Microciona scabiosum
                  Microciona chelifera
                  Microciona plumosa
                  Microciona lambei
                  Microciona primitiva
                  Microciona similis
                  Microciona scabida
                  Microciona curvichela
                  Microciona bulbotoxa
                  Microciona acanthotoxa
                  Microciona ditoxa
                  Microciona jecusculum
                  Microciona pennata
                  Microciona polita
                  Microciona quadriradiata
                  Microciona simplicissima
                  Microciona eurypa
                  Microciona placenta
                  Microciona longitoxa
                  Microciona armatalevi
                  Microciona tenuissima
                  Microciona acanthotoxa
                  Microciona rhopalophora
                Paresperia
                Rhaphidophlus
                Echinochalina
                Holopsamma
                Pandaros
                Axociella
                Pseudanchinoe
                Stylotellopsis
                Aaata
                Anaata
                Antherochalina
                Aulenella
                Axocielita
                Clathriopsamma
                Colloclathria
                Dendrocia
                Dictyociona
                Echinonema
                Fisherispongia
                Halme
                Leptoclathria
                Litaspongia
                Marleyia
                Ophistospongia
                Oplitaspongia
                Paratenaciella
                Plectispa
                Protophlitaspongia
                Psammotoxa
                Raphidophlus
                Rhapidophlus
                Tenacia
                Thalassodendron
                Thalyseurypon
                Wilsonella
                Allocia
                Damoseni
                Labacea
                Ligrota
                Paradoryx
                Pitalia
                Ramoses
                Sophax
                Tablis
                Tenaciella
                Isociella
                Thalysias
                Axosuberites
                Wetmoreus
            Ophlitaspongiinae
            Acarniidae
            Ophlitaspongiidae
          Raspailiidae
          Rhabderemiidae
          Clathriidae
          Acarnidae
          Sollasellidae
          Iophoneae
          Cornulidae
        Mycalina
        Myxillina
        Latrunculina
      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