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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
      Prosobranchia
      Heterobranchia
      Cocculiniformia
      Neritimorpha
      Vetigastropoda
      Apogastropoda
      Caenogastropoda
        Neogastropoda
        Sorbeoconcha
        [unassigned] Caenogastropoda
          Cerithioidea
            Turritellidae
              Mesalia
              Turritellinae
                  Tachyrhynchus
                  Turritella
                    Turritella communis
                    Turritella decipiens
                    Turritella turbona
                    Turritella erosa
                    Turritella maculata
                    Turritella cochlea
                    Turritella sanguinea
                    Turritella duplicata
                    Turritella terebra
                    Turritella torulosa
                    Turritella columnaris
                    Turritella meta
                    Turritella praetermissa
                    Turritella ungulina
                    Turritella bicingulata
                    Turritella gemmata
                    Turritella ligar
                    Turritella vermicularis
                    Turritella carinifera
                    Turritella lyonsi
                    Turritella acropora
                    Turritella exoleta
                    Turritella lindae
                    Turritella yucatecana
                    Turritella variegata
                    Turritella imbricata
                    Turritella albolapis
                    Turritella anactor
                    Turritella annulata
                    Turritella attenuata
                    Turritella aurocincta
                    Turritella bacillum
                    Turritella banksii
                    Turritella broderipiana
                    Turritella capensis
                    Turritella chordata
                    Turritella chrysotoxa
                    Turritella cingulata
                    Turritella cingulifera
                    Turritella clarionensis
                    Turritella concava
                    Turritella conspersa
                    Turritella cornea
                    Turritella couteaudi
                    Turritella crocea
                    Turritella dirkhartogensis
                    Turritella dura
                    Turritella elachista
                    Turritella fastigiata
                    Turritella ferruginea
                    Turritella fortilirata
                    Turritella fultoni
                    Turritella gonostoma
                    Turritella hastula
                    Turritella hookeri
                    Turritella incisa
                    Turritella knysnaensis
                    Turritella leeuwinensis
                    Turritella lentiginosa
                    Turritella leucostoma
                    Turritella monilifera
                    Turritella monterosatoi
                    Turritella nebulosa
                    Turritella nodulosa
                    Turritella nzimaorum
                    Turritella polaris
                    Turritella punctata
                    Turritella radula
                    Turritella rubescens
                    Turritella triplicata
                    Turritella wareni
                    Turritella willetti
                    Turritella fuscomaculata
                    Turritella lactea
                    Turritella algida
                    Turritella (Torcula)
                    Turritella bayeri
                    Turritella marianopsis
                    Turritella yucatecanum
                    Turritella caribaea
                    Turritella candida
                    Turritella congelata
                    Turritella bicolor
                    Turritella aquila
                    Turritella canaliculata
                    Turritella flammulata
                    Turritella mariana
                    Turritella parkeri
                    Turritella reevei
                    Turritella kowiensis
                  Maoricolpus
                  Colpospira
                  Gazameda
                  Zeacolpus
              Orectospirinae
              Pareorinae
              Vermiculariinae
            Cerithiidae
            Dialidae
            Fossaridae
            Litiopidae
            Obtortionidae
            Planaxidae
            Potamididae
            Scaliolidae
            Siliquariidae
            Diastomatidae
            Procerithiidae
          Heteroglossa
          Cerithiopsoidea
          Triphoroidea
          Epitonioidea
          Eulimoidea
          Ampullarioidea
          Campaniloidea
          Ptenoglossa
        Littorinimorpha
        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