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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
        Haplosclerina
          Callyspongiidae
          Chalinidae
            Rhaphisia
            Reniera
            Adocia
            Chalina
                Chalina groenlandica
                Chalina spatula
                Chalina vega
                Chalina arbuscula
                Chalina oculata
                Chalina robusta
                Chalina amoyensis
                Chalina confusa
                Chalina finitima
                Chalina gracilenta
                Chalina zostericola
                Chalina verticillata
                Chalina clathrata
                Chalina compressa
                Chalina coppingeri
                Chalina elastica
                Chalina fistulosa
                Chalina fusifera
                Chalina ligulata
                Chalina monilata
                Chalina spiculifera
                Chalina viridis
                Chalina pulvinata
                Chalina moniliformis
                Chalina polychotoma
                  Chalina polychotoma var. mauritiana
                  Chalina polychotoma var. angulata
                  Chalina polychotoma var. oculata
                  Chalina polychotoma var. trichotoma
                  Chalina polychotoma var. moniliformis
                  Chalina polychotoma var. robusta
                  Chalina polychotoma var. compressa
                Chalina repens
                Chalina arenosa
                Chalina flemingii
                Chalina pulcherrima
                Chalina rectangularis
                Chalina similis
                Chalina sorongae
                Chalina minor
                Chalina digitata
                Chalina intersepta
                Chalina mauritiana
                Chalina obtusispiculifera
                Chalina bandae
                Chalina chalinoides
                Chalina limbata
                Chalina cervicornis
                Chalina simulans
                Chalina montaguii
                Chalina inornata
                Chalina grantii
                Chalina digitata
                Chalina finitima
                Chalina spongiosissima
                Chalina tenuiramosa
            Chalinula
            Cladocroce
            Dendroxea
            Haliclona
            Pellinula
            Protoschmidtia
            Rhizoniera
            Tedaniella
            Acervochalina
            Siphocalina
            Orina
            Sigmadocia
            Gellius
            Phylosiphonia
            Arcesios
            Chalinodendron
            Diplodemia
            Euchalinopsis
            Kallypilidion
            Katiba
            Lessepsia
            Nara
            Neoadocia
            Pellinella
            Prianos
            Reniclona
            Toxadocia
            Veluspa
            Philotia
            Asychis
            Toxiclona
            Halichoclona
            Dendrectilla
            Polysiphonia
          Niphatidae
          Haliclonidae
          Adociidae
          Renierinae
          Gelliadae
          Renieridae
          Gelliidae
          Gelliinae
          Cavochalinidae
          Tubulodigitidae
        Petrosina
      Poecilosclerida
      Verongida
      Astrophorida
      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
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Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
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