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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
          Niphatidae
            Cribrochalina
            Gelliodes
                Gelliodes bifacialis
                Gelliodes fayalensis
                Gelliodes plexa
                Gelliodes areolata
                Gelliodes biformis
                Gelliodes callista
                Gelliodes carnosa
                Gelliodes coscinopora
                Gelliodes fibroreticulata
                Gelliodes fibrosa
                Gelliodes fibulata
                Gelliodes flagellifera
                Gelliodes fragilis
                Gelliodes gracilis
                Gelliodes hamata
                Gelliodes incrustans
                Gelliodes leucosolenia
                Gelliodes licheniformis
                Gelliodes macrosigma
                Gelliodes nossibea
                Gelliodes obtusa
                Gelliodes persica
                Gelliodes petrosioides
                Gelliodes poculum
                Gelliodes porosa
                Gelliodes pumila
                Gelliodes ramosa
                Gelliodes setosa
                Gelliodes spinosella
                Gelliodes spongiosa
                Gelliodes strongylofera
                Gelliodes tenuirhabdus
                Gelliodes truncata
                Gelliodes tubulosa
                Gelliodes fibrosa
                Gelliodes benedeni
                  Gelliodes benedeni fortior
                Gelliodes sosuae
                Gelliodes cavicornis
                Gelliodes fibulata
                Gelliodes filiformis
                Gelliodes flagelliformis
                Gelliodes kerguelensis
                Gelliodes luridus
                Gelliodes consimilis
            Hemigellius
            Pachychalina
            Amphimedon
            Dasychalina
            Haliclonissa
            Microxina
            Niphates
            Sigmaxinyssa
            Calyxadocia
            Hemihaliclona
            Plumocolumetta
          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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