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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
    Polyplacophora
    Gastropoda
      Prosobranchia
      Heterobranchia
      Cocculiniformia
      Neritimorpha
      Vetigastropoda
      Apogastropoda
      Caenogastropoda
        Neogastropoda
        Sorbeoconcha
        [unassigned] Caenogastropoda
        Littorinimorpha
          Littorinoidea
          Rissooidea
            Hydrobiidae
            Assimineidae
            Iravadiidae
            Rissoidae
              Rissoininae
                  Rissoina
                    Rissoina bertholleti
                    Rissoina bruguieri
                    Rissoina spirata
                    Rissoina oryza
                    Rissoina nivea
                    Rissoina seguenziana
                    Rissoina miltozona
                    Rissoina sismondiana
                    Rissoina balteata
                    Rissoina ephamilla
                    Rissoina pusilla
                    Rissoina smithi
                    Rissoina turricula
                    Rissoina fenestrata
                    Rissoina deshayesi
                    Rissoina ambigua
                    Rissoina rissoi
                    Rissoina plicata
                    Rissoina meteoris
                    Rissoina angeli
                    Rissoina delicatissima
                    Rissoina redfermi
                    Rissoina cancellata
                    Rissoina decussata
                    Rissoina dyscrita
                    Rissoina krebsii
                    Rissoina multicostata
                    Rissoina princeps
                    Rissoina striatocostata
                    Rissoina striosa
                    Rissoina cylindrica
                    Rissoina redferni
                    Rissoina harryleei
                    Rissoina tongunensis
                    Rissoina cancellina
                    Rissoina pulchra
                    Rissoina privati
                    Rissoina hummelincki
                    Rissoina indiscreta
                    Rissoina labrosa
                    Rissoina mayori
                    Rissoina sigmifer
                    Rissoina vanderspoeli
                    Rissoina chathamensis
                    Rissoina conica
                    Rissoina adamsi
                    Rissoina alarconi
                    Rissoina allemani
                    Rissoina axelliana
                    Rissoina bakeri
                    Rissoina barthelowi
                    Rissoina burragei
                    Rissoina clandestina
                    Rissoina dina
                    Rissoina effusa
                    Rissoina ericana
                    Rissoina excolpa
                    Rissoina expansa
                    Rissoina favilla
                    Rissoina firmata
                    Rissoina fortis
                    Rissoina hartmanni
                    Rissoina helena
                    Rissoina histia
                    Rissoina inca
                    Rissoina io
                    Rissoina janus
                    Rissoina lapazana
                    Rissoina laurae
                    Rissoina lirata
                    Rissoina mazatlanica
                    Rissoina preposterum
                    Rissoina scalariformis
                    Rissoina signae
                    Rissoina stricta
                    Rissoina townsendi
                    Rissoina woodwardii
                    Rissoina zeltneri
                    Rissoina californica
                    Rissoina keenae
                    Rissoina newcombei
                    Rissoina costata
                    Rissoina crenilabris
                    Rissoina refugium
                    Rissoina iredalei
                    Rissoina angulata
                    Rissoina concinna
                    Rissoina collaxis
                    Rissoina cretacea
                    Rissoina imbricata
                    Rissoina variegata
                    Rissoina triangularis
                    Rissoina (Rissolina)
                    Rissoina plicatula
                    Rissoina crassa
                    Rissoina cardinalis
                    Rissoina praecida
                    Rissoina costulata
                    Rissoina japonica
                    Rissoina achatina
                    Rissoina achatinoides
                    Rissoina anguina
                    Rissoina manawatawhia
                    Rissoina zonata
                    Rissoina calia
                  Zebina
                  Schwartziella
                  Stosicia
                  Folinia
                  Ailinzebina
                  Pandalosia
                  Parazebinella
                  Stiva
                  Chiliostigma
                  Caporista
                  Austrosina
                  Peripetella
                  Pleneconea
                  Zymalata
                  Condylicia
                  Laseronia
                  Sulcorissoina
                  Costalynia
                  Fractoralla
                  Phosinella
                  Planapexia
                  Dentrissoina
                  Ishimoria
                  Lapsigyrus
                  Crepitacella
                  Dolophanes
                  Amaurella
              Rissoinae
            Tornidae
            Adeorbidae
            Caecidae
            Truncatellidae
            Barleeidae
            Anabathridae
            Elachisinidae
            Trochaclididae
            Calopiidae
            Cochliopidae
            Emblandidae
            Epigridae
            Falsicingulidae
            Hydrococcidae
            Barleeiidae
          Stromboidea
          Hipponicoidea
          Crepiduloidea
          Xenophoroidea
          Cypraeoidea
          Heteropoda
          Naticoidea
          Tonnoidea
          Cassoidea
          Rissoacea
          Calyptraeoidea
          Capuloidea
          Vanikoroidea
          Cingulopsoidea
          Pterotracheoidea
          Velutinoidea
          Vermetoidea
          Ficoidea
        Stenoglossa
        Hypsogastropoda
      Patellogastropoda
    Scaphopoda
    Bivalvia
    Monoplacophora
    Solenogastres
    Cephalopoda
    Placophora
    Aculifera
    Conchifera
    Pelecypoda
    Caudofoveata
    Lamellibranchiata
    Conchifera
  Porifera
  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