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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
  Porifera
    Calcarea
    Hexactinellida
    Homoscleromorpha
    Porifera incertae sedis
    Demospongiae
      Ceractinomorpha
      Tetractinomorpha
      Dendroceratida
      Dictyoceratida
      Halichondrida
      Halisarcida
      Haplosclerida
        Haplosclerina
          Callyspongiidae
          Chalinidae
          Niphatidae
            Cribrochalina
            Gelliodes
            Hemigellius
            Pachychalina
            Amphimedon
                Amphimedon aculeata
                Amphimedon aitsuensis
                Amphimedon alata
                Amphimedon aurantiaca
                  Amphimedon aurantiaca var. dura
                Amphimedon brevispiculifera
                Amphimedon caribica
                Amphimedon cellulosa
                Amphimedon chinensis
                Amphimedon chloros
                Amphimedon complanata
                Amphimedon compressa
                Amphimedon conferta
                Amphimedon cristata
                Amphimedon decurtata
                Amphimedon delicatula
                Amphimedon denhartogi
                Amphimedon dura
                Amphimedon elastica
                Amphimedon erina
                Amphimedon excelsa
                Amphimedon flexa
                Amphimedon lamellata
                Amphimedon leprosa
                Amphimedon maresi
                Amphimedon massalis
                Amphimedon micropora
                Amphimedon minuta
                Amphimedon mollis
                Amphimedon navalis
                Amphimedon ochracea
                Amphimedon paradisus
                Amphimedon paraviridis
                Amphimedon reticulosa
                Amphimedon robusta
                Amphimedon rubens
                Amphimedon rubida
                Amphimedon rubiginosa
                Amphimedon rudis
                Amphimedon spiculosa
                Amphimedon spinosa
                Amphimedon strongylata
                Amphimedon subcylindrica
                Amphimedon sulcata
                Amphimedon tenera
                Amphimedon trindanea
                Amphimedon viridis
                Amphimedon validissima
                Amphimedon nolitangere
                Amphimedon terpenensis
                Amphimedon variabilis
                Amphimedon ferox
                Amphimedon elastica
                Amphimedon queenslandica
                Amphimedon rustica
                Amphimedon zamboangae
                Amphimedon arborescens
                Amphimedon dinae
                Amphimedon jalae
                Amphimedon hamadai
                Amphimedon texotli
                Amphimedon calyx
            Dasychalina
            Haliclonissa
            Microxina
            Niphates
            Sigmaxinyssa
            Calyxadocia
            Hemihaliclona
            Plumocolumetta
          Haliclonidae
          Adociidae
          Renierinae
          Gelliadae
          Renieridae
          Gelliidae
          Gelliinae
          Cavochalinidae
          Tubulodigitidae
        Petrosina
      Poecilosclerida
      Verongida
      Astrophorida
      Chondrosida
      Hadromerida
      'Lithistida'
      Spirophorida
      Petrosida
      Nepheliospongida
      Choristida
      Axinellida
      Agelasida
      Demospongiae incertae sedis
      Verticillitida
      Keratosa
      Myxospongiae
      Gummineae
      Verongimorpha
      Tetractinellida
      Democlavia
    Sclerospongiae
    Hyalospongiae
    Calcispongiae
  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
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Protozoa
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Chromista
Archaea
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