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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
  Platyhelminthes
  Nematoda
  Annelida
  Nemertina
  Arthropoda
    Crustacea
      Remipedia
      Branchiopoda
      Maxillopoda
        Mystacocarida
        Copepoda
          Progymnoplea
          Neocopepoda
            Gymnoplea
            Podoplea
              Cyclopoida
              Harpacticoida
              Poecilostomatoida
              Siphonostomatoida
                Artotrogidae
                Asterocheridae
                Brychiopontiidae
                Caligidae
                Calverocheridae
                Cancerillidae
                Cecropidae
                Dichelesthiidae
                Dinopontiidae
                Dirivultidae
                Entomolepidae
                Eudactylinidae
                Euryphoridae
                Hatschekiidae
                Kroyeriidae
                Lernaeopodidae
                    Advena
                    Albionella
                    Alella
                    Brachiella
                    Charopinus
                    Clavella
                    Clavellisa
                    Clavellistes
                    Clavellodes
                    Clavellotis
                    Eubrachiella
                    Lernaeopoda
                      Lernaeopoda bidiscalis
                      Lernaeopoda galei
                      Lernaeopoda longibrachia
                      Lernaeopoda arcturi
                      Lernaeopoda beani
                      Lernaeopoda bicauliculata
                      Lernaeopoda bivia
                      Lernaeopoda cluthae
                      Lernaeopoda etmopteri
                      Lernaeopoda extumescens
                      Lernaeopoda falculata
                      Lernaeopoda gibber
                      Lernaeopoda globosa
                      Lernaeopoda heintzi
                      Lernaeopoda inermis
                      Lernaeopoda lampri
                      Lernaeopoda musteli
                      Lernaeopoda mustelicola
                      Lernaeopoda obesa
                      Lernaeopoda oviformis
                      Lernaeopoda scoliodontis
                      Lernaeopoda scyllicola
                      Lernaeopoda scyllii
                      Lernaeopoda similis
                      Lernaeopoda spinacis
                      Lernaeopoda stromatei
                      Lernaeopoda tenuis
                      Lernaeopoda tuberculata
                      Lernaeopoda upenaei
                      Lernaeopoda centroscyllii
                      Lernaeopoda longicaudata
                      Lernaeopoda alpina
                      Lernaeopoda bicaudata
                      Lernaeopoda brongniartii
                      Lernaeopoda californiensis
                      Lernaeopoda carpionis
                      Lernaeopoda coregoni
                      Lernaeopoda coregonorum
                      Lernaeopoda cyprinacea
                      Lernaeopoda dalmanni
                      Lernaeopoda elongata
                      Lernaeopoda extensa
                      Lernaeopoda fontinalis
                      Lernaeopoda longimana
                      Lernaeopoda lotae
                      Lernaeopoda maraenae
                      Lernaeopoda salmoneus
                      Lernaeopoda sebastis
                      Lernaeopoda siscowet
                      Lernaeopoda edwardsii
                      Lernaeopoda major
                    Lernaeopodina
                    Naobranchia
                    Neobrachiella
                    Ommatokoita
                    Pseudocharopinus
                    Salmincola
                    Schistobrachia
                    Sparidicola
                    Thysanote
                    Vanbenedenia
                    Clavellomimus
                    Dendrapta
                    Clavellopsis
                    Acespadia
                    Anaclavella
                    Anchorella
                    Andropoda
                    Brachiellina
                    Brianella
                    Cestopoda
                    Charopinopsis
                    Cryptova
                    Eobrachiella
                    Epibrachiella
                    Epiclavella
                    Euclavellisa
                    Isobranchia
                    Lernaeopodella
                    Lernaeopodopsis
                    Margolisius
                    Mixtio
                    Nectobrachia
                    Nudiclavella
                    Parabrachiella
                    Pediculus
                    Probrachiella
                    Proclavellodes
                    Pseudocharopinoides
                    Pseudolernaeopoda
                    Pseudolernaeopodina
                    Pseudolernanthropus
                    Pseudomixtio
                    Schisturus
                    Stylophorus
                    Thomsonella
                    Thynnicola
                    Thysanotella
                    Kabatahoia
                Lernanthropidae
                Megapontiidae
                Micropontiidae
                Nanaspididae
                Nicothoidae
                Pandaridae
                Pennellidae
                Pontoeciellidae
                Pseudocycnidae
                Rataniidae
                Sphyriidae
                Sponginticolidae
                Spongiocnizontidae
                Trebiidae
                Ascomyzontidae
                Calvocheridae
                Dissonidae
                Naobranchiidae
                Pennillidae
                Pontopsyllidae
                Amaterasidae
                Choniostomatidae
                Pseudohatschekiidae
              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
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