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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
            Chaetodoryx
            Clinolabis
            Coelectys
            Coelosphaera
            Ectoforcepia
            Ectyodoryx
            Forcepia
                Forcepia assimilis
                Forcepia brunnea
                Forcepia bulbosa
                Forcepia dentifera
                Forcepia exilis
                Forcepia fabricans
                Forcepia forcipis
                Forcepia forcipula
                Forcepia fragilis
                Forcepia groenlandica
                Forcepia imperfecta
                Forcepia luciensis
                Forcepia megachela
                Forcepia psammophila
                Forcepia thielei
                Forcepia topsenti
                Forcepia versatilis
                Forcepia (Forcepia)
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) agglutinans
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) biceps
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) carteri
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) colonensis
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) crassanchorata
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) elvini
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) fabricans
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) forcipis
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) forcipula
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) foresti
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) fragilis
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) grandisigmata
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) groenlandica
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) hartmani
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) hymena
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) imperfecta
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) japonica
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) koltuni
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) lissa
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) macrostylosa
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) mertoni
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) psammophila
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) pustula
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) solustylota
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) stephensi
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) thielei
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) topsenti
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) trilabis
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) versatilis
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) volsella
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) arenosa
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) minima
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) fistulosa
                  Forcepia (Forcepia) vansoesti
                Forcepia (Leptolabis)
                Forcepia (Trachyforcepia)
                Forcepia acanthostylosa
                Forcepia agglutinans
                Forcepia arenosa
                Forcepia carteri
                Forcepia crassanchorata
                Forcepia elvini
                Forcepia foresti
                Forcepia grandisigmata
                Forcepia hartmani
                Forcepia japonica
                Forcepia koltuni
                Forcepia macrostylosa
                Forcepia mertoni
                Forcepia michaelseni
                Forcepia solustylota
                Forcepia stephensi
                Forcepia volsella
                Forcepia colonensis
                Forcepia bilabifera
                Forcepia tenuissima
                Forcepia uschakowi
                Forcepia trilabis
                Forcepia minima
                Forcepia fistulosa
                Forcepia microlabis
                Forcepia convergens
            Histoderma
            Histodermella
            Inflatella
            Joyeuxia
            Leptolabis
            Lissodendoryx
            Paramyxilla
            Lepidosphaera
            Coelosphaericon
            Damiriana
            Forcipina
            Histioderma
            Siderodermella
            Tedandoryx
            Trachyforcepia
            Wilsa
            Zetekispongia
            Zottea
            Zetekopsis
            Xytopsoocha
            Damiriella
            Labisophlita
            Marcusoldia
            Naauna
            Sideroderma
            Celtodoryx
            Histodermion
            Waldoschmittia
            Anomodoryx
            Acanthodoryx
          Crambeidae
          Crellidae
          Dendoricellidae
          Desmacididae
          Hymedesmiidae
          Iotrochotidae
          Myxillidae
          Tedaniidae
          Anchinoidae
          Desmacidonidae
          Chondropsidae
          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
Monera