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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
            Leptosia
            Acanthancora
            Anchinoe
            Hamigera
            Hemimycale
            Hymedesmia
            Hymoxenia
            Phorbas
              Phorbas arneseni
              Phorbas baffini
              Phorbas bihamigerum
              Phorbas demonstrans
              Phorbas dendyi
                  Phorbas dendyi var. robustus
              Phorbas dives
              Phorbas equiosculatus
              Phorbas fibulatum
              Phorbas fictitius
              Phorbas kovdaicum
              Phorbas lieberkuehni
              Phorbas mercator
              Phorbas microchelifer
              Phorbas microcionides
              Phorbas papillatus
              Phorbas paupertas
              Phorbas perarmatus
              Phorbas plumosus
              Phorbas posidoni
              Phorbas repens
              Phorbas roemeri
              Phorbas tenacior
              Phorbas acanthochela
              Phorbas amaranthus
              Phorbas anchorata
              Phorbas arborescens
              Phorbas arbuscula
              Phorbas arenacea
              Phorbas areolatus
              Phorbas bardajii
              Phorbas benguelensis
              Phorbas bihamiger
              Phorbas caespitosus
              Phorbas californiana
              Phorbas clathratus
              Phorbas clathrodes
              Phorbas conulosus
              Phorbas dayi
              Phorbas domini
              Phorbas epizoaria
              Phorbas erectus
              Phorbas ferrerhernandezi
              Phorbas fibrosus
              Phorbas fibulatus
              Phorbas fictitioides
              Phorbas frutex
              Phorbas fulvus
              Phorbas fusifer
              Phorbas glaberrimus
              Phorbas gravidus
              Phorbas hoffmani
              Phorbas intermedia
              Phorbas lamellatus
              Phorbas leptochela
              Phorbas mollis
              Phorbas neptuni
              Phorbas nexus
              Phorbas osculosus
              Phorbas palmatus
              Phorbas papillatus
              Phorbas paucistylifer
              Phorbas purpureus
              Phorbas pustulosa
              Phorbas ramosus
              Phorbas roxasi
              Phorbas salebrosus
              Phorbas scabida
              Phorbas stylifer
              Phorbas tenuis
              Phorbas tenuispiculatus
              Phorbas thela
              Phorbas tokushima
              Phorbas uncifer
              Phorbas longurioides
              Phorbas arborescens
              Phorbas areolatus
              Phorbas papillosa
              Phorbas purpureus
              Phorbas areolata
              Phorbas megasigma
              Phorbas punctatus
              Phorbas topsenti
              Phorbas tailliezi
              Phorbas gukhulensis
              Phorbas ramosus
              Phorbas armatus
              Phorbas ferrugineus
              Phorbas shackletoni
              Phorbas capixaba
              Phorbas bergmontae
              Phorbas burtoni
              Phorbas hechteli
              Phorbas tanitai
            Plocamionida
            Plumohalichondria
            Pronax
            Pseudohalichondria
            Spanioplon
            Stylopus
            Stylostichon
            Suberotelites
            Cribrella
            Kirkpatrickia
            Myxodoryx
            Bipocillopsis
            Hymenamphiastra
            Acanthoxa
            Amoibodictya
            Clathrissa
            Hymendectyon
            Lissopocillon
            Merriamium
            Podotuberculum
            Sclerilla
            Stegxella
            Ectyodesmia
            Ectyostylopus
            Ferrerhernandezia
            Poecilochela
            Tylosigma
            Pronaxella
            Hymetrichita
          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
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