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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
  Porifera
  Platyhelminthes
  Nematoda
  Annelida
  Nemertina
  Arthropoda
  Ctenophora
  Cnidaria
    Anthozoa
    Hydrozoa
      Hydroidolina
        Siphonophorae
        Anthoathecata
        Leptothecata
          Conica
            Aglaopheniidae
            Campanulinidae
            Haleciidae
            Lafoeidae
            Laodiceidae
            Lovenellidae
            Phialellidae
            Plumulariidae
            Sertulariidae
              Abietinaria
              Amphisbetia
              Cnidoscyphus
              Diphasia
              Dynamena
              Hydrallmania
              Salacia
              Selaginopsis
              Sertularella
              Sertularia
                Sertularia albimaris
                Sertularia argentea
                Sertularia cupressina
                    Sertularia cupressina var. argentea
                Sertularia distans
                Sertularia fabricii
                Sertularia gracilis
                Sertularia inflata
                Sertularia marginata
                Sertularia mediterranea
                Sertularia mirabilis
                Sertularia perpusilla
                Sertularia plumosa
                Sertularia robusta
                Sertularia schmidti
                Sertularia tenera
                Sertularia turbinata
                Sertularia abietina
                Sertularia bursaria
                Sertularia tamarisca
                Sertularia gayi
                Sertularia halecina
                Sertularia pluma
                Sertularia pinnata
                Sertularia lendigera
                Sertularia falcata
                Sertularia antennina
                Sertularia polyzonias
                Sertularia rugosa
                Sertularia setacea
                Sertularia lonchitis
                Sertularia frutescens
                Sertularia articulata
                Sertularia operculata
                Sertularia cornuta
                Sertularia avicularia
                Sertularia loricata
                Sertularia chelata
                Sertularia ciliata
                Sertularia rosacea
                Sertularia pumila
                Sertularia nigra
                Sertularia scruposa
                Sertularia eburnea
                Sertularia fastigiata
                Sertularia anguina
                Sertularia volubilis
                Sertularia geniculata
                Sertularia latiuscula
                Sertularia similis
                Sertularia spinosa
                Sertularia linealis
                Sertularia cupressoides
                Sertularia aperta
                Sertularia furcata
                Sertularia macrocarpa
                Sertularia nasonovi
                Sertularia australis
                Sertularia bidentata
                Sertularia bilatteralis
                Sertularia borneensis
                Sertularia brashnikowi
                Sertularia brevicyathus
                Sertularia brunnea
                Sertularia camtschatika
                Sertularia carolinensis
                Sertularia ceylonensis
                Sertularia complexa
                Sertularia conferta
                Sertularia converrucosa
                Sertularia divergens
                Sertularia dohrni
                Sertularia drachi
                Sertularia dubia
                Sertularia fissa
                Sertularia flexilis
                Sertularia flowersi
                Sertularia frigida
                Sertularia gracillima
                Sertularia hattorii
                Sertularia heteroclada
                Sertularia humilis
                Sertularia intermedia
                Sertularia ligulata
                Sertularia linealis
                Sertularia linkoi
                Sertularia littoralis
                Sertularia loculosa
                Sertularia longa
                Sertularia maccallumi
                Sertularia malayensis
                Sertularia mertoni
                Sertularia moluccana
                Sertularia notabilis
                Sertularia nuttingi
                Sertularia ochotensis
                Sertularia orthogonalis
                Sertularia palkensis
                Sertularia pusilla
                Sertularia pyriformis
                Sertularia rugosissima
                Sertularia simplex
                Sertularia stabilis
                Sertularia staurotheca
                Sertularia stechowi
                Sertularia suensoni
                Sertularia tatarica
                Sertularia tenuis
                Sertularia tolli
                Sertularia trigonostoma
                Sertularia tumida
                Sertularia vervoorti
                Sertularia articulata
                Sertularia birulae
                Sertularia hupferi
                Sertularia longicosta
                Sertularia ramulosa
                Sertularia unguiculata
                Sertularia billardi
                Sertularia insignis
                Sertularia rathbuni
                Sertularia nana
                Sertularia schydlowskii
                Sertularia dalli
                Sertularia amplectens
                Sertularia subtilis
                Sertularia thompsoni
                Sertularia westindica
                Sertularia echinocarpa
                Sertularia pourtalesi
                Sertularia exigua
                Sertularia erasmoi
                Sertularia stookeyi
                Sertularia lamourousii
                Sertularia laxa
                Sertularia versluysi
                Sertularia arctica
                Sertularia delicatula
                Sertularia anguinea
                Sertularia labrata
                Sertularia parasitica
                Sertularia bicornis
                Sertularia geminata
                Sertularia tongensis
                Sertularia tongensis
                Sertularia ephemera
                Sertularia distans
                Sertularia alata
                Sertularia pinaster
                Sertularia pinus
                Sertularia minuta
                Sertularia tricuspidata
                Sertularia unilateralis
                Sertularia unilateralis
                Sertularia geniculata
                Sertularia exserta
                Sertularia pinastrum
                Sertularia pinaster
              Symplectoscyphus
              Tamarisca
              Thuiaria
              Dymella
              Biseriaria
              Tridentata
              Pericladium
              Staurotheca
              Thyroscyphus
              Calamphora
              Caminothujaria
              Crateritheca
              Dictyocladium
              Fraseroscyphus
              Gigantotheca
              Gonaxia
              Hypopyxis
              Papilionella
              Stereotheca
              Tasmanaria
              Geminella
              Diphasis
              Monopoma
              Diphasiella
              Idiella
              Idia
              Pasya
            Aequoreidae
            Mitrocomidae
            Eirenidae
            Eucheilotidae
            Tiarannidae
            Barcinididae
            Blackfordiidae
            Dipleurosomatidae
            Halopterididae
            Kirchenpaueriidae
            Malagazziidae
            Melicertidae
            Orchistomidae
            Tiaropsidae
            Syntheciidae
            Hebellidae
            Teclaiidae
            Cirrholoveniidae
            Clathrozoidae
            Lineolariidae
            Octocannoididae
            Sugiuridae
          Proboscoida
        Laingiomedusae
        Anthomedusae
        Leptomedusae
        Gymnoblastea
        Athecata
        Thecata
        Siphonophora
      Trachylinae
      Hydroida
      Leptolinae
    Cnidaria incertae sedis
    Cubozoa
    Scyphozoa
    Staurozoa
  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