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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
      Poecilosclerida
        Microcionina
        Mycalina
          Cladorhizidae
          Desmacellidae
          Guitarridae
          Hamacanthidae
          Isodictyidae
          Mycalidae
          Biemnidae
          Esperiopsidae
            Esperiopsis
              Esperiopsis artemisinae
              Esperiopsis columnata
              Esperiopsis decora
              Esperiopsis digitata
                  Esperiopsis digitata infundibula
                  Esperiopsis digitata digitata
              Esperiopsis forcipula
              Esperiopsis fucorum
              Esperiopsis glomeris
              Esperiopsis incognita
              Esperiopsis lobata
              Esperiopsis macrosigma
              Esperiopsis pedicellata
              Esperiopsis polymorpha
              Esperiopsis praedita
              Esperiopsis rigida
              Esperiopsis schmidti
              Esperiopsis strongylatus
              Esperiopsis strongylophora
              Esperiopsis typichela
              Esperiopsis villosa
              Esperiopsis challengeri
              Esperiopsis chindoensis
              Esperiopsis crassofibrosa
              Esperiopsis desmophora
              Esperiopsis diasolenia
              Esperiopsis ferruginea
              Esperiopsis flagellum
              Esperiopsis flava
              Esperiopsis heardi
              Esperiopsis informis
              Esperiopsis inodes
              Esperiopsis laxa
              Esperiopsis lesliei
              Esperiopsis lingua
              Esperiopsis magnifolia
              Esperiopsis megachela
              Esperiopsis papillata
              Esperiopsis plumosa
              Esperiopsis profunda
              Esperiopsis pulchella
              Esperiopsis radiata
              Esperiopsis stipula
              Esperiopsis symmetrica
              Esperiopsis uncigera
              Esperiopsis varia
              Esperiopsis variussigma
              Esperiopsis rugosa
              Esperiopsis scotiae
              Esperiopsis glaber
              Esperiopsis bathyalis
              Esperiopsis obliqua
              Esperiopsis originalis
              Esperiopsis canaliculata
              Esperiopsis cylindrica
              Esperiopsis vancouverensis
              Esperiopsis fragilis
              Esperiopsis viridis
              Esperiopsis flagrum
              Esperiopsis foliata
              Esperiopsis edwardii
              Esperiopsis normani
              Esperiopsis involuta
              Esperiopsis dubia
              Esperiopsis gracilis
              Esperiopsis paupera
              Esperiopsis thompsoni
              Esperiopsis hispidula
              Esperiopsis koltuni
              Esperiopsis schmidtii
              Esperiopsis dianae
              Esperiopsis quatsinoensis
              Esperiopsis clarkei
              Esperiopsis cimensis
            Ulosa
            Amphilectus
            Semisuberites
            Mycalopsis
            Stylaxinella
            Brondstedia
            Corybas
            Siphonocalypta
            Stylaxia
          Merliidae
          Podospongiidae
          Esperiadae
          Esperellinae
          Arenochalininae
        Myxillina
        Latrunculina
      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
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera