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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
    Polyplacophora
    Gastropoda
    Scaphopoda
    Bivalvia
      Protobranchia
      Pteriomorphia
      Heterodonta
        Archiheterodonta
        Euheterodonta
          Veneroida
          Myoida
          Anomalodesmata
          [unassigned] Euheterodonta
            Gastrochaenoidea
            Hiatelloidea
            Solenoidea
              Solenidae
                  Solen
                    Solen marginatus
                    Solen directus
                    Solen vagina
                    Solen ensis
                    Solen viridis
                    Solen truncatus
                    Solen roseomaculatus
                    Solen lischkeanus
                    Solen corneus
                    Solen gouldi
                    Solen correctus
                    Solen woodwardi
                    Solen capensis
                    Solen guineensis
                    Solen strictus
                    Solen grandis
                    Solen darwinensis
                    Solen kikuchii
                    Solen pseudolinearis
                    Solen sarawakensis
                    Solen soleneae
                    Solen thachi
                    Solen thailandicus
                    Solen aldridgei
                    Solen annandalei
                    Solen arcuatus
                    Solen aureomaculatus
                    Solen brevissimus
                    Solen canaliculatus
                    Solen ceylonensis
                    Solen crockeri
                    Solen crosnieri
                    Solen cylindraceus
                    Solen dactylus
                    Solen delesserti
                    Solen digitalis
                    Solen exiguus
                    Solen fonesii
                    Solen gaudichaudi
                    Solen gemmelli
                    Solen gordonis
                    Solen gravelyi
                    Solen kajiyamai
                    Solen kempi
                    Solen pfeifferi
                    Solen regularis
                    Solen rosaceus
                    Solen rosewateri
                    Solen rostriformis
                    Solen krusensterni
                    Solen kurodai
                    Solen leanus
                    Solen madagascariensis
                    Solen malaccensis
                    Solen linearis
                    Solen mexicanus
                    Solen obliquus
                    Solen oerstedii
                    Solen pazensis
                    Solen rudis
                    Solen schultzeanus
                    Solen sicarius
                    Solen sloanii
                    Solen vitreus
                    Solen woodwardi
                    Solen alfredensis
                    Solen abbreviatus
                    Solen vagina
                    Solen ambiguus
                    Solen vaginoides
                    Solen brevis
                    Solen corneus
                    Solen corneus
                    Solen dunkerianus
                    Solen gracilis
                    Solen gracilis
                    Solen incertus
                    Solen intermedius
                    Solen intermedius
                    Solen lappeanus
                    Solen linearis
                    Solen luzonicus
                    Solen marginatus
                    Solen pechiliensis
                    Solen philippianus
                    Solen philippinarum
                    Solen pictus
                    Solen pictus
                    Solen rostrumanatis
                    Solen rotundatus
                    Solen rudis
                    Solen truncatus
                    Solen truncatus
                    Solen xishana
                    Solen americanus
                    Solen gladiolus
                    Solen ligulus
                    Solen michaudi
                    Solen nicobaricus
                    Solen novaculus
                    Solen planus
                    Solen poirieri
                    Solen pygmaeus
                    Solen scalprum
                    Solen tenuis
                    Solen tenuis
                    Solen acinaces
                    Solen acutangulus
                    Solen jonesii
                    Solen lamarckii
                    Solen lamarckii
                    Solen tairona
                    Solen timorensis
                    Solen thuelchus
                    Solen versicolor
                  Neosolen
              Pharidae
              Cultellidae
          Pholadomyoida
          Lucinoida
      Palaeoheterodonta
    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