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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
      Hexasterophora
        Hexactinosa
        Lyssacinosa
        Aulocalycoida
        Fieldingida
        Hexactinosida
        Lychniscosida
        Lyssacinosida
          Caulophacidae
          Euplectellidae
          Leucopsacidae
          Rossellidae
            Lanuginellinae
            Rossellinae
              Holtenia
              Caulophacus
              Anoxycalyx
              Asconema
              Bathydorus
              Rossella
              Schaudinnia
              Scyphidium
              Trichasterina
              Acanthascus
                  Acanthascus (Acanthascus)
                  Acanthascus (Rhabdocalyptus)
                  Acanthascus (Staurocalyptus)
                    Acanthascus (Staurocalyptus) affinis
                    Acanthascus (Staurocalyptus) celebesianus
                    Acanthascus (Staurocalyptus) dowlingi
                    Acanthascus (Staurocalyptus) entacanthus
                    Acanthascus (Staurocalyptus) fasciculatus
                    Acanthascus (Staurocalyptus) fuca
                    Acanthascus (Staurocalyptus) glaber
                    Acanthascus (Staurocalyptus) hamatus
                    Acanthascus (Staurocalyptus) heteractinus
                    Acanthascus (Staurocalyptus) microchetus
                    Acanthascus (Staurocalyptus) pleorhaphides
                    Acanthascus (Staurocalyptus) roeperi
                    Acanthascus (Staurocalyptus) rugocruciatus
                    Acanthascus (Staurocalyptus) solidus
                    Acanthascus (Staurocalyptus) tubulosus
                  Acanthascus dubius
                  Acanthascus grossularia
                  Acanthascus nealus
                  Acanthascus alani
                  Acanthascus cactus
                  Acanthascus pachyderma
                  Acanthascus platei
                  Acanthascus arcticus
                  Acanthascus asper
                  Acanthascus australis
                  Acanthascus baculifer
                  Acanthascus bidentatus
                  Acanthascus borealis
                  Acanthascus capillatus
                  Acanthascus heteraster
                  Acanthascus mirabilis
                  Acanthascus mollis
                  Acanthascus monstraster
                  Acanthascus nodulosus
                  Acanthascus plumodigitatus
                  Acanthascus tener
                  Acanthascus unguiculatus
                  Acanthascus victor
                  Acanthascus affinis
                  Acanthascus celebesianus
                  Acanthascus dowlingi
                  Acanthascus entacanthus
                  Acanthascus fasciculatus
                  Acanthascus fuca
                  Acanthascus glaber
                  Acanthascus hamatus
                  Acanthascus heteractinus
                  Acanthascus microchetus
                  Acanthascus pleorhaphides
                  Acanthascus roeperi
                  Acanthascus rugocruciatus
                  Acanthascus solidus
                  Acanthascus tubulosus
                  Acanthascus dawsoni
                  Acanthascus tenuis
              Aphorme
              Aulosaccus
              Caulophacella
              Crateromorpha
              Hyalascus
              Vazella
              Vitrollula
              Rhabdocalyptus
              Anaulosoma
              Aulorossella
              Balanites
              Calycosaccus
              Gymnorossella
              Polyrhabdus
              Pleorhabdus
              Balanella
              Aulochone
              Scolymastra
              Staurocalyptus
              Caulodiscus
              Nodastrella
            Askonematinae
          Lyssacinosida incertae sedis
          Placoplegmidae
          Alcyoncellidae
          Sympagellidae
        Lychniscosa
      Amphidiscophora
    Homoscleromorpha
    Porifera incertae sedis
    Demospongiae
    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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