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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
        Axinellidae
          Auletta
          Axinella
          Axingella
          Ophiraphidites
          Phakellia
            Phakellia arctica
            Phakellia beringensis
            Phakellia bowerbanki
            Phakellia dalli
            Phakellia lambei
            Phakellia robusta
            Phakellia rugosa
            Phakellia ventilabrum
                Phakellia ventilabrum var. australiensis
                Phakellia ventilabrum var. connexiva
            Phakellia ventilabra
            Phakellia atypica
            Phakellia behringensis
            Phakellia bettinae
            Phakellia carduus
            Phakellia ceylonensis
            Phakellia connexiva
            Phakellia crassistylifera
            Phakellia crateriformis
            Phakellia dendyi
            Phakellia elegans
            Phakellia foliacea
            Phakellia folium
            Phakellia fusca
            Phakellia hooperi
            Phakellia izuensis
            Phakellia labellum
            Phakellia lamelligera
            Phakellia multiformis
            Phakellia palmata
            Phakellia paupera
            Phakellia perforata
            Phakellia plumosa
            Phakellia pygmaea
            Phakellia ridleyi
            Phakellia sportella
            Phakellia stelliderma
            Phakellia stipitata
            Phakellia symmetrica
            Phakellia vermiculata
            Phakellia ramosa
            Phakellia conulosa
            Phakellia lobata
            Phakellia cactoides
            Phakellia egregia
            Phakellia tumida
            Phakellia incisa
            Phakellia plicata
            Phakellia tenax
            Phakellia papyracea
            Phakellia papyracea
            Phakellia microxephora
            Phakellia crassa
            Phakellia flabellata
            Phakellia villosa
            Phakellia flabellata
            Phakellia jacksoniana
            Phakellia brassicata
            Phakellia cavernosa
            Phakellia hirondellei
            Phakellia donnani
            Phakellia aruensis
            Phakellia flabelloreticulata
            Phakellia infundibuliformis
            Phakellia columnata
            Phakellia sur
            Phakellia cribrosa
            Phakellia setosa
            Phakellia inflexa
            Phakellia radiata
          Pseudaxinella
          Tragosia
          Cymbastela
          Dragmacidon
          Dragmaxia
          Pararhaphoxya
          Phycopsis
          Ptilocaulis
          Reniochalina
          Adreissa
          Axiamon
          Axinosia
          Chalinissa
          Teichaxinella
          Axidragma
          Phacellia
          Ketosus
          Pipestela
          Querciclona
        Bubaridae
        Desmoxyidae
        Dictyonellidae
        Halichondriidae
        Hymeniacidonidae
        Heteroxyidae
        Phakellidae
        Scopalinidae
      Halisarcida
      Haplosclerida
      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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Chromista
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