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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 ensis americana
                  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
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Monera