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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
        Microcionina
        Mycalina
        Myxillina
          Coelosphaeridae
          Crambeidae
          Crellidae
          Dendoricellidae
          Desmacididae
          Hymedesmiidae
          Iotrochotidae
          Myxillidae
          Tedaniidae
            Tedania
                Tedania anhelans
                Tedania commixta
                Tedania conuligera
                Tedania flexistrongyla
                Tedania fragilis
                Tedania phacellina
                Tedania suctoria
                Tedania (Tedania)
                Tedania (Tedaniopsis)
                Tedania (Trachytedania)
                Tedania charcoti
                Tedania tantula
                Tedania gracilis
                Tedania lanceta
                Tedania oxeata
                Tedania trirhaphis
                Tedania vanhoeffini
                Tedania topsenti
                Tedania leptoderma
                Tedania levis
                Tedania coulmani
                Tedania variolosa
                Tedania laxa
                Tedania tenuispina
                Tedania stylonychaeta
                Tedania tepitootehenuaensis
                Tedania tora
                Tedania urgorrii
                Tedania actiniformis
                  Tedania actiniformis var. amphistrongyla
                  Tedania actiniformis var. antarctica
                Tedania armata
                Tedania infundibuliformis
                Tedania massa
                Tedania tenuicapitata
                Tedania turbinata
                Tedania vanhoeffeni
                Tedania biraphidora
                Tedania corticata
                Tedania excavata
                Tedania fuegiensis
                Tedania gurjanovae
                Tedania inflata
                Tedania laminariae
                Tedania microrhaphidophora
                Tedania mucosa
                Tedania murdochi
                Tedania patagonica
                Tedania pectinicola
                Tedania spinata
                Tedania toxicalis
                Tedania battershilli
                Tedania bispinata
                Tedania brevispiculata
                Tedania brondstedi
                Tedania dirhaphis
                Tedania diversirhaphidiophora
                Tedania fibrosa
                Tedania increscens
                Tedania levigotylota
                Tedania oligostyla
                Tedania palola
                Tedania placentaeformis
                Tedania purpurescens
                Tedania rhoi
                Tedania rubicunda
                Tedania scotiae
                Tedania spinostylota
                Tedania strongylostyla
                Tedania tubulifera
                Tedania assabensis
                Tedania bermudensis
                Tedania brasiliensis
                Tedania chevreuxi
                Tedania coralliophila
                Tedania conica
                Tedania fragilis
                Tedania sansibarensis
                Tedania galapagensis
                Tedania maeandrica
                Tedania pilarriosae
                Tedania reticulata
                Tedania digitata
                Tedania klausi
                Tedania nigrescens
                Tedania strongyla
                Tedania sasuensis
                Tedania songakensis
                Tedania kagalaskai
                Tedania ferrolensis
                Tedania ignis
                Tedania pacifica
                Tedania cristagalli
                Tedania rubra
                Tedania brucei
            Hemitedania
            Strongylamma
            Oxytedania
            Trachytedania
            Paratedania
            Xytopsihis
            Tedaniopsis
          Anchinoidae
          Desmacidonidae
          Chondropsidae
          Phellodermidae
        Latrunculina
      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
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera