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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 rotundus cidaris
                  Erylus rotundus megarhabdus
                  Erylus rotundus typicus
              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