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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
      'Lithistida'
      Spirophorida
        Tetillidae
          Chrotella
          Cinachyra
          Craniella
          Tetilla
            Tetilla abyssorum
            Tetilla azorica
            Tetilla cranium
            Tetilla disigma
            Tetilla geniculata
            Tetilla infrequens
            Tetilla longipilis
            Tetilla nimia
            Tetilla polyura
            Tetilla repens
            Tetilla sandalina
            Tetilla sibirica
            Tetilla tethyoides
            Tetilla truncata
            Tetilla zetlandica
            Tetilla africana
            Tetilla arabica
            Tetilla australis
            Tetilla barodensis
            Tetilla bonaventura
            Tetilla capillosa
            Tetilla casula
            Tetilla ciliata
            Tetilla coronida
            Tetilla dactyloidea
            Tetilla diaenophora
            Tetilla disigmata
            Tetilla enoi
            Tetilla euplocamos
            Tetilla furcifer
            Tetilla ginzan
            Tetilla gladius
            Tetilla globosa
            Tetilla hamatum
            Tetilla hebes
            Tetilla japonica
            Tetilla koreana
            Tetilla limicola
            Tetilla microxea
            Tetilla monodi
            Tetilla mutabilis
            Tetilla ovata
            Tetilla oxeata
            Tetilla pedifera
            Tetilla pedonculata
            Tetilla pilula
            Tetilla poculifera
            Tetilla praecipua
            Tetilla radiata
            Tetilla raphidiophora
            Tetilla ridleyi
            Tetilla sansibarica
            Tetilla schulzei
            Tetilla sigmoancoratum
            Tetilla sigmophora
            Tetilla simplex
            Tetilla spinosa
            Tetilla leptoderma
            Tetilla metaclada
            Tetilla globosa
                Tetilla globosa var. rugosa
            Tetilla dactyloidea
            Tetilla amboinensis
            Tetilla rubra
            Tetilla ternatensis
            Tetilla violacea
            Tetilla arb
            Tetilla coactifera
            Tetilla grandis
            Tetilla gravata
            Tetilla anomala
            Tetilla hirsuta
            Tetilla cinachyroides
            Tetilla lindgreni
            Tetilla laminaris
            Tetilla bacca
            Tetilla (Cinachyrella)
            Tetilla ellipsoida
            Tetilla anamonaena
            Tetilla merguiensis
            Tetilla pentatriaena
            Tetilla muricyi
            Tetilla rodriguesi
          Acanthotetilla
          Amphitethya
          Cinachyrella
          Fangophilina
          Paratetilla
          Acanthocinachyra
          Craniellopsis
          Lophurella
          Polyura
          Psetalia
          Raphidotethya
          Spiretta
          Spongocardium
          Tethyopsilla
          Trachygellius
          Casula
          Ectyonilla
          Kaira
          Uliczka
          Dactylella
          Polyurella
          Cinochyra
        Samidae
        Spirasigmidae
        Ectyonillidae
      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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Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera