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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
      Poecilosclerida
        Microcionina
        Mycalina
          Cladorhizidae
          Desmacellidae
          Guitarridae
          Hamacanthidae
          Isodictyidae
          Mycalidae
          Biemnidae
          Esperiopsidae
            Esperiopsis
                Esperiopsis artemisinae
                Esperiopsis columnata
                Esperiopsis decora
                Esperiopsis digitata
                  Esperiopsis digitata infundibula
                  Esperiopsis digitata digitata
                Esperiopsis forcipula
                Esperiopsis fucorum
                Esperiopsis glomeris
                Esperiopsis incognita
                Esperiopsis lobata
                Esperiopsis macrosigma
                Esperiopsis pedicellata
                Esperiopsis polymorpha
                Esperiopsis praedita
                Esperiopsis rigida
                Esperiopsis schmidti
                Esperiopsis strongylatus
                Esperiopsis strongylophora
                Esperiopsis typichela
                Esperiopsis villosa
                Esperiopsis challengeri
                Esperiopsis chindoensis
                Esperiopsis crassofibrosa
                Esperiopsis desmophora
                Esperiopsis diasolenia
                Esperiopsis ferruginea
                Esperiopsis flagellum
                Esperiopsis flava
                Esperiopsis heardi
                Esperiopsis informis
                Esperiopsis inodes
                Esperiopsis laxa
                Esperiopsis lesliei
                Esperiopsis lingua
                Esperiopsis magnifolia
                Esperiopsis megachela
                Esperiopsis papillata
                Esperiopsis plumosa
                Esperiopsis profunda
                Esperiopsis pulchella
                Esperiopsis radiata
                Esperiopsis stipula
                Esperiopsis symmetrica
                Esperiopsis uncigera
                Esperiopsis varia
                Esperiopsis variussigma
                Esperiopsis rugosa
                Esperiopsis scotiae
                Esperiopsis glaber
                Esperiopsis bathyalis
                Esperiopsis obliqua
                Esperiopsis originalis
                Esperiopsis canaliculata
                Esperiopsis cylindrica
                Esperiopsis vancouverensis
                Esperiopsis fragilis
                Esperiopsis viridis
                Esperiopsis flagrum
                Esperiopsis foliata
                Esperiopsis edwardii
                Esperiopsis normani
                Esperiopsis involuta
                Esperiopsis dubia
                Esperiopsis gracilis
                Esperiopsis paupera
                Esperiopsis thompsoni
                Esperiopsis hispidula
                Esperiopsis koltuni
                Esperiopsis schmidtii
                Esperiopsis dianae
                Esperiopsis quatsinoensis
                Esperiopsis clarkei
                Esperiopsis cimensis
            Ulosa
            Amphilectus
            Semisuberites
            Mycalopsis
            Stylaxinella
            Brondstedia
            Corybas
            Siphonocalypta
            Stylaxia
          Merliidae
          Podospongiidae
          Esperiadae
          Esperellinae
          Arenochalininae
        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