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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
              Rissoinae
                Alvania
                Amphirissoa
                Benthonella
                Benthonellania
                Boreocingula
                Botryphallus
                Cingula
                Crisilla
                Frigidoalvania
                Gofasia
                Manzonia
                Obtusella
                Onoba
                    Onoba aculeus
                    Onoba dimassai
                    Onoba gianninii
                    Onoba guzmani
                    Onoba improcera
                    Onoba islandica
                    Onoba josae
                    Onoba leptalea
                    Onoba manzoniana
                    Onoba mighelsii
                    Onoba moreleti
                    Onoba obliqua
                    Onoba semicostata
                    Onoba tarifensis
                    Onoba torelli
                    Onoba aculea
                    Onoba candida
                    Onoba oliverioi
                    Onoba nunezi
                    Onoba anderssoni
                    Onoba delecta
                    Onoba georgiana
                    Onoba grisea
                    Onoba paucilirata
                    Onoba schraderi
                    Onoba steineni
                    Onoba turqueti
                    Onoba jeffreysi
                    Onoba jeffrejsii
                    Onoba verrilli
                    Onoba galaica
                    Onoba breogani
                    Onoba gigas
                    Onoba striola
                    Onoba sulcula
                    Onoba aedonis
                    Onoba algida
                    Onoba amissa
                    Onoba brachia
                    Onoba crassicordata
                    Onoba cruzi
                    Onoba fuegoensis
                    Onoba glaphyra
                    Onoba glypta
                    Onoba lacuniformis
                    Onoba lusciniae
                    Onoba merelinoides
                    Onoba platia
                    Onoba protofimbriata
                    Onoba subaedonis
                    Onoba subincisa
                    Onoba transenna
                    Onoba tristanensis
                    Onoba bickertoni
                    Onoba ovata
                    Onoba fortis
                    Onoba fusiformis
                    Onoba brunnea
                    Onoba cerinella
                    Onoba cingulata
                    Onoba compsa
                    Onoba kurilensis
                    Onoba kyskensis
                    Onoba laticingulata
                    Onoba russica
                    Onoba tenuistriata
                    Onoba aurivillii
                    Onoba bakeri
                    Onoba carpenteri
                    Onoba castanella
                    Onoba dalli
                    Onoba forresterensis
                    Onoba muriei
                    Onoba palmeri
                    Onoba alaskana
                    Onoba candidissima
                    Onoba multilirata
                    Onoba kermadecensis
                    Onoba australiae
                    Onoba supracostata
                    Onoba alfredensis
                    Onoba (Subestea)
                    Onoba elegans
                    Onoba lubrica
                    Onoba rubicunda
                    Onoba (Ovirissoa)
                    Onoba (Manawatawhia)
                    Onoba analoga
                    Onoba schythei
                    Onoba scotiana
                    Onoba alpha
                    Onoba aupouria
                    Onoba beta
                    Onoba delicatula
                    Onoba delta
                    Onoba edita
                    Onoba fallai
                    Onoba foveauxiana
                    Onoba fumata
                    Onoba gamma
                    Onoba inornata
                    Onoba insculpta
                    Onoba iredalei
                    Onoba morioria
                    Onoba obliquata
                    Onoba oliveri
                    Onoba parvula
                    Onoba paucicostata
                    Onoba sorenseni
                    Onoba tenuistriata
                    Onoba delli
                    Onoba duplicata
                    Onoba exuta
                    Onoba paupereques
                    Onoba simplex
                Peringiella
                Plagyostila
                Pseudosetia
                Pusillina
                Rissoa
                Rudolphosetia
                Setia
                Voorwindia
                Ovirissoa
                Powellisetia
                Subonoba
                Tomlinella
                Plagiostyla
                Pontiturboella
                Porosalvania
                Merelina
                Simulamerelina
                Punctulum
                Parashiela
                Lucidestea
                Lironoba
                Attenuata
                Alvinia
                Auriconoba
                Mutiturboella
                Radiata
                Turgidina
                Benzia
                Varisetia
                Haurakia
                Moniziella
                Flemellia
                Striatestea
                Galeodinopsis
            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