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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
  Platyhelminthes
  Nematoda
  Annelida
  Nemertina
  Arthropoda
    Crustacea
      Remipedia
      Branchiopoda
      Maxillopoda
      Malacostraca
        Eumalacostraca
          Eucarida
          Peracarida
            Isopoda
              Anthuridea
              Asellota
              Epicaridea
              Flabellifera
              Gnathiidea
              Microcerberidea
              Valvifera
                Arcturidae
                Chaetiliidae
                Holognathidae
                Idoteidae
                Austrarcturellidae
                Antarcturidae
                  Pleuroprion
                  Antarcturus
                      Antarcturus horridus
                      Antarcturus polaris
                      Antarcturus alimus
                      Antarcturus furcatus
                        Antarcturus furcatus furcatus
                        Antarcturus furcatus latispinis
                      Antarcturus giganteus
                      Antarcturus glacialis
                      Antarcturus hempeli
                      Antarcturus johnstoni
                      Antarcturus nonatoi
                      Antarcturus signiensis
                      Antarcturus spinacoronatus
                      Antarcturus strasseni
                      Antarcturus usitatus
                      Antarcturus weddelli
                      Antarcturus andriashevi
                      Antarcturus breidensis
                      Antarcturus caecus
                      Antarcturus hirsutus
                      Antarcturus hodgsoni
                      Antarcturus kamtschaticus
                      Antarcturus kilepoae
                      Antarcturus kladophoros
                      Antarcturus multispinis
                      Antarcturus oryx
                      Antarcturus pacificus
                      Antarcturus princeps
                      Antarcturus schmidti
                      Antarcturus zenkevitchi
                      Antarcturus bicornis
                      Antarcturus abyssalis
                      Antarcturus aculeatus
                      Antarcturus acutispinis
                      Antarcturus adareanus
                      Antarcturus bathybialis
                      Antarcturus bovinus
                      Antarcturus brunneus
                      Antarcturus oligospinis
                      Antarcturus praecipius
                      Antarcturus ultraabyssalis
                      Antarcturus anna
                      Antarcturus hiemalis
                      Antarcturus meridionalis
                      Antarcturus hirticornis
                      Antarcturus antarcticus
                      Antarcturus granulosus
                      Antarcturus lillei
                      Antarcturus beliaevei
                      Antarcturus dubius
                      Antarcturus gaussianus
                      Antarcturus similis
                      Antarcturus belgicae
                      Antarcturus cactiformis
                      Antarcturus drygalskii
                      Antarcturus acanthurus
                      Antarcturus debilis
                      Antarcturus echinatus
                      Antarcturus globicaudis
                      Antarcturus ornatus
                  Chaetarcturus
                  Litarcturus
                  Acantharcturus
                  Cylindrarcturus
                  Fissarcturus
                  Globarcturus
                  Tuberarcturus
                  Abyssarcturus
                  Caecarcturus
                  Furcarcturus
                  Glaberarcturus
                  Mixarcturus
                  Oxyarcturus
                  Spinarcturus
                  Thermoarcturus
                  Antares
                Holidoteidae
                Pseudidotheidae
                Rectarcturidae
                Astacillidae
                Idotheidae
                Arcturididae
                Xenarcturidae
                Amesopodidae
              Oniscidea
            Tanaidacea
            Amphipoda
            Cumacea
            Thermosbaenacea
            Mysidacea
            Mysida
            Lophogastrida
            Anisopoda
        Hoplocarida
      Ostracoda
      Pentastomata
    Chelicerata
    Myriapoda
    Hexapoda
  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
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