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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
          Muricoidea
          Cancellarioidea
          Conoidea
          Buccinoidea
            Buccinidae
              Belomitra
              Beringius
              Buccinulum
              Buccinum
              Chauvetia
              Colus
                  Colus altus
                  Colus frielei
                  Colus glaber
                  Colus gracilis
                  Colus holboelli
                  Colus howsei
                  Colus islandicus
                  Colus jeffreysianus
                  Colus kroeyeri
                  Colus latericeus
                  Colus sabini
                  Colus turgidulus
                  Colus verkruezeni
                  Colus spitzbergensis
                  Colus hypolispus
                  Colus lachesis
                  Colus togatus
                  Colus tortuosus
                  Colus tashiensis
                  Colus ryukyuensis
                  Colus terraenovae
                  Colus esychus
                  Colus roseus
                  Colus aurariae
                  Colus dautzenbergi
                  Colus rushii
                  Colus syrtensis
                  Colus aphelus
                  Colus aurantius
                  Colus barbarinus
                  Colus bristolensis
                  Colus brunneus
                  Colus callorhinus
                  Colus capponius
                  Colus errones
                  Colus georgianus
                  Colus halidonus
                  Colus halimeris
                  Colus hallii
                  Colus herendeenii
                  Colus holbolli
                  Colus incisus
                  Colus jordani
                  Colus kroyeri
                  Colus martensi
                  Colus oceanodromae
                  Colus ombronius
                  Colus periscelidus
                  Colus severinus
                  Colus stejnegeri
                  Colus timetus
                  Colus trombinus
                  Colus trophius
                  Colus virens
              Engina
              Euthriostoma
              Kryptos
              Liomesus
              Mohnia
              Neptunea
              Pisania
              Pollia
              Troschelia
              Turrisipho
              Volutopsius
              Euthria
              Pareuthria
              Buccininae
              Ancistrolepis
              Pyrulofusus
              Plicifusus
              Aeneator
              Steye
              Tritonium
              Beringiinae
              Busyconinae
              Donovaniinae
              Siphonaliinae
              Fulguropsis
              Dianthiphos
              Americominella
              Anomacme
              Anomalisipho
              Antistreptus
              Barbitonia
              Bathyancistrolepis
              Cavineptunea
              Clinopegma
              Clivipollia
              Corneobuccinum
              Enginella
              Euthrenopsis
              Falsilatirus
              Fax
              Fusinella
              Fusipagoda
              Glypteuthria
              Godfreyena
              Helicofusus
              Japelion
              Japeuthria
              Kapala
              Kelletia
              Latisipho
              Limatofusus
              Lirabuccinum
              Lusitromina
              Lussivolutopsius
              Metaphos
              Neancistrolepis
              Neoteron
              Ornatoconcha
              Paracalliloncha
              Parancistrolepis
              Paranotoficula
              Plicibuccinum
              Preangeria
              Pseudoliomesus
              Savatieria
              Tasmeuthria
              Thalassoplanes
              Tomlinia
              Trajana
              Truncaria
              Volutharpa
              Aulacofusus
              Austrofusus
              Pseudoneptunea
              Costaria
              Northia
              Volutopsion
            Nassariidae
            Columbellidae
            Fasciolariidae
            Melongenidae
            Colubrariidae
          Volutoidea
          Olivoidea
          Pseudolivoidea
        Sorbeoconcha
        [unassigned] Caenogastropoda
        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