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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
      Verongida
      Astrophorida
        Ancorinidae
        Coppatiidae
        Geodiidae
          Cydonium
          Isops
          Scutastra
          Synops
          Geodinella
          Stellogeodia
          Geodistrongyla
          Unimia
          Triate
          Pyxitis
          Erylinae
            Penares
            Caminella
            Caminus
            Erylus
                Erylus cantabricus
                Erylus corsicus
                Erylus deficiens
                Erylus discophorus
                Erylus euastrum
                Erylus expletus
                Erylus granularis
                Erylus mamillaris
                Erylus nummulifer
                Erylus oblongus
                Erylus papillatus
                Erylus papulifer
                Erylus stellifer
                Erylus topsenti
                Erylus amorphus
                Erylus amphiastera
                Erylus aspidodiscus
                Erylus bahamensis
                Erylus burtoni
                Erylus caliculatus
                Erylus carteri
                Erylus corneus
                Erylus cornutus
                Erylus cylindriger
                Erylus decumbens
                Erylus diminutus
                Erylus discastera
                Erylus fibrillosus
                Erylus formosus
                Erylus geodioides
                Erylus gilchristi
                Erylus globulifer
                Erylus goffrilleri
                Erylus inaequalis
                Erylus incrustans
                Erylus koreanus
                Erylus lendenfeldi
                Erylus ministrongylus
                Erylus monticularis
                Erylus niger
                Erylus nobilis
                Erylus oxyaster
                Erylus philippinensis
                Erylus placenta
                Erylus polyaster
                Erylus proximus
                Erylus rotundus
                Erylus sollasi
                Erylus transiens
                Erylus trisphaerus
                Erylus alleni
                Erylus clavatus
                Erylus proximum
                Erylus soesti
                Erylus aleuticus
                Erylus toxiformis
                Erylus latens
                Erylus amissus
                Erylus circus
                Erylus citrus
                Erylus fromontae
                Erylus megaster
                Erylus listeri
                Erylus geodiformis
                Erylus almirante
                Erylus fluminense
                Erylus revizee
                Erylus schmiederi
            Pachymatisma
            Melophlus
          Geodiinae
          Calthropellinae
        Pachastrellidae
        Theneidae
        Thrombidae
        Stellettidae
        Calthropellidae
        Alectonidae
        Thoosidae
        Astrophorida incertae sedis
        Vulcanellidae
      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