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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
        Myxillina
          Coelosphaeridae
          Crambeidae
          Crellidae
          Dendoricellidae
          Desmacididae
          Hymedesmiidae
          Iotrochotidae
          Myxillidae
          Tedaniidae
          Anchinoidae
          Desmacidonidae
          Chondropsidae
            Psammopemma
            Batzella
            Chondropsis
            Phoriospongia
            Psammoclema
                Psammoclema arenaceum
                Psammoclema bitextum
                Psammoclema callosum
                Psammoclema commune
                Psammoclema decipiens
                Psammoclema densum
                Psammoclema digitiferum
                Psammoclema finmarchicum
                Psammoclema fissuratum
                Psammoclema foliaceum
                Psammoclema fuliginosum
                Psammoclema goniodes
                Psammoclema inordinatum
                Psammoclema marshalli
                Psammoclema nicaeense
                Psammoclema nodosum
                Psammoclema porosum
                Psammoclema radiatum
                Psammoclema ramosum
                Psammoclema rubrum
                Psammoclema rugosum
                Psammoclema stellidermatum
                Psammoclema stipitatum
                Psammoclema tuberculatum
                Psammoclema vansoesti
                Psammoclema vosmaeri
                Psammoclema crassum
            Strongylacidon
            Collosclerophora
            Kaneohea
            Psammascus
            Sarcocornea
            Sigmatella
            Stylotrichophora
            Tedaniopsamma
            Xytopsiphum
            Xytopsues
            Burtonispongia
          Phellodermidae
        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
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