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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
            Tedania
              Tedania anhelans
              Tedania commixta
              Tedania conuligera
              Tedania flexistrongyla
              Tedania fragilis
              Tedania phacellina
              Tedania suctoria
              Tedania (Tedania)
                  Tedania (Tedania) anhelans
                  Tedania (Tedania) aspera
                  Tedania (Tedania) assabensis
                  Tedania (Tedania) battershilli
                  Tedania (Tedania) bispinata
                  Tedania (Tedania) brasiliensis
                  Tedania (Tedania) brevispiculata
                  Tedania (Tedania) brondstedi
                  Tedania (Tedania) commixta
                  Tedania (Tedania) conica
                  Tedania (Tedania) connectens
                  Tedania (Tedania) coralliophila
                  Tedania (Tedania) dirhaphis
                  Tedania (Tedania) diversirhaphidiophora
                  Tedania (Tedania) elegans
                  Tedania (Tedania) fibrosa
                  Tedania (Tedania) flexistrongyla
                  Tedania (Tedania) fragilis
                  Tedania (Tedania) galapagensis
                  Tedania (Tedania) ignis
                  Tedania (Tedania) inermis
                  Tedania (Tedania) lanceta
                  Tedania (Tedania) levigotylota
                  Tedania (Tedania) macrodactyla
                  Tedania (Tedania) maeandrica
                  Tedania (Tedania) obscurata
                  Tedania (Tedania) oligostyla
                  Tedania (Tedania) palola
                  Tedania (Tedania) panis
                  Tedania (Tedania) pilarriosae
                  Tedania (Tedania) placentaeformis
                  Tedania (Tedania) polytyla
                  Tedania (Tedania) purpurescens
                  Tedania (Tedania) reticulata
                  Tedania (Tedania) rhoi
                  Tedania (Tedania) rubicunda
                  Tedania (Tedania) sansibarensis
                  Tedania (Tedania) scotiae
                  Tedania (Tedania) spinostylota
                  Tedania (Tedania) strongylostyla
                  Tedania (Tedania) stylonychaeta
                  Tedania (Tedania) suctoria
                  Tedania (Tedania) tepitootehenuaensis
                  Tedania (Tedania) trirhaphis
                  Tedania (Tedania) tubulifera
                  Tedania (Tedania) urgorrii
                  Tedania (Tedania) verrucosa
                  Tedania (Tedania) fragilis
                  Tedania (Tedania) kagalaskai
                  Tedania (Tedania) klausi
                  Tedania (Tedania) vulcani
                  Tedania (Tedania) dieita
                  Tedania (Tedania) rudis
                  Tedania (Tedania) strongyla
                  Tedania (Tedania) pacifica
                  Tedania (Tedania) strongylostylota
              Tedania (Tedaniopsis)
              Tedania (Trachytedania)
              Tedania charcoti
              Tedania tantula
              Tedania gracilis
              Tedania lanceta
              Tedania oxeata
              Tedania trirhaphis
              Tedania vanhoeffini
              Tedania topsenti
              Tedania leptoderma
              Tedania levis
              Tedania coulmani
              Tedania variolosa
              Tedania laxa
              Tedania tenuispina
              Tedania stylonychaeta
              Tedania tepitootehenuaensis
              Tedania tora
              Tedania urgorrii
              Tedania actiniformis
              Tedania armata
              Tedania infundibuliformis
              Tedania massa
              Tedania tenuicapitata
              Tedania turbinata
              Tedania vanhoeffeni
              Tedania biraphidora
              Tedania corticata
              Tedania excavata
              Tedania fuegiensis
              Tedania gurjanovae
              Tedania inflata
              Tedania laminariae
              Tedania microrhaphidophora
              Tedania mucosa
              Tedania murdochi
              Tedania patagonica
              Tedania pectinicola
              Tedania spinata
              Tedania toxicalis
              Tedania battershilli
              Tedania bispinata
              Tedania brevispiculata
              Tedania brondstedi
              Tedania dirhaphis
              Tedania diversirhaphidiophora
              Tedania fibrosa
              Tedania increscens
              Tedania levigotylota
              Tedania oligostyla
              Tedania palola
              Tedania placentaeformis
              Tedania purpurescens
              Tedania rhoi
              Tedania rubicunda
              Tedania scotiae
              Tedania spinostylota
              Tedania strongylostyla
              Tedania tubulifera
              Tedania assabensis
              Tedania bermudensis
              Tedania brasiliensis
              Tedania chevreuxi
              Tedania coralliophila
              Tedania conica
              Tedania fragilis
              Tedania sansibarensis
              Tedania galapagensis
              Tedania maeandrica
              Tedania pilarriosae
              Tedania reticulata
              Tedania digitata
              Tedania klausi
              Tedania nigrescens
              Tedania strongyla
              Tedania sasuensis
              Tedania songakensis
              Tedania kagalaskai
              Tedania ferrolensis
              Tedania ignis
              Tedania pacifica
              Tedania cristagalli
              Tedania rubra
              Tedania brucei
            Hemitedania
            Strongylamma
            Oxytedania
            Trachytedania
            Paratedania
            Xytopsihis
            Tedaniopsis
          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