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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
      Chondrosida
      Hadromerida
        Clionidae
        Hemiasterellidae
        Placospongiidae
        Polymastiidae
        Spirastrellidae
        Stylocordylidae
        Suberitidae
        Tethyidae
        Timeidae
        Acanthochaetetidae
        Clionaidae
          Vioa
          Cliona
          Cliothosa
          Dotona
          Papillina
          Spiroxya
          Pione
          Clionaopsis
          Scolopes
          Cervicornia
          Spheciospongia
            Spheciospongia albida
            Spheciospongia alcyonoides
            Spheciospongia areolata
            Spheciospongia australis
            Spheciospongia capensis
            Spheciospongia confoederata
            Spheciospongia congenera
            Spheciospongia digitata
            Spheciospongia excentrica
            Spheciospongia florida
            Spheciospongia globularis
            Spheciospongia inconstans
            Spheciospongia lacunosa
            Spheciospongia massa
            Spheciospongia mastoidea
            Spheciospongia montiformis
            Spheciospongia panis
            Spheciospongia papillosa
            Spheciospongia peleia
            Spheciospongia poculoides
            Spheciospongia potamophera
            Spheciospongia poterionides
            Spheciospongia purpurea
            Spheciospongia ramulosa
            Spheciospongia robusta
            Spheciospongia rotunda
            Spheciospongia ruetzleri
            Spheciospongia semilunaris
            Spheciospongia solida
            Spheciospongia spiculifera
            Spheciospongia symbiotica
            Spheciospongia tentorioides
            Spheciospongia transitoria
            Spheciospongia vagabunda
            Spheciospongia vesparium
                Spheciospongia vesparium pallida
                Spheciospongia vesparium typica
            Spheciospongia arndti
            Spheciospongia othello
            Spheciospongia incrustans
            Spheciospongia carnosa
            Spheciospongia vesparia
          Volzia
          Anthosigmella
          Archaeocliona
          Clionopsis
          Delaubenfelsia
          Dyscliona
          Euryphylle
          Osculina
          Papillissa
          Papillella
          Paracordyla
          Poterion
          Raphyrus
          Rhaphyrus
          Sapline
          Bernatia
          Donotella
          Gapoda
          Scantilla
          Scantiletta
          Taguilla
          Tapiliata
          Rhaphiophora
          Idomon
          Heterocliona
        Trachycladidae
        Stelligeridae
        Donatiidae
      '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
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