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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
    Polyplacophora
    Gastropoda
      Prosobranchia
      Heterobranchia
      Cocculiniformia
      Neritimorpha
      Vetigastropoda
      Apogastropoda
      Caenogastropoda
        Neogastropoda
        Sorbeoconcha
        [unassigned] Caenogastropoda
          Cerithioidea
          Heteroglossa
          Cerithiopsoidea
          Triphoroidea
            Cerithiopsidae
            Triphoridae
                Triforis
                Cheirodonta
                Cosmotriphora
                Marshallora
                Metaxia
                Monophorus
                Nototriphora
                Obesula
                Pogonodon
                Similiphora
                Strobiligera
                Triphora
                Viriola
                Iniforis
                  Iniforis carmelae
                  Iniforis casta
                  Iniforis immaculata
                  Iniforis pseudothomae
                  Iniforis turristhomae
                  Iniforis gudeliae
                  Iniforis pelorcei
                  Iniforis bellula
                  Iniforis douvillei
                  Iniforis formosula
                  Iniforis fusiformis
                  Iniforis hinuhinu
                  Iniforis ikukoae
                  Iniforis malvacea
                  Iniforis ofuensis
                  Iniforis ordinata
                  Iniforis peleae
                  Iniforis perfecta
                  Iniforis poecila
                  Iniforis porrecta
                  Iniforis progressa
                  Iniforis tuberia
                  Iniforis violacea
                  Iniforis zonata
                  Iniforis aemulans
                  Iniforis albogranosa
                  Iniforis violaceus
                  Iniforis calculifera
                  Iniforis ducosensis
                Cautotriphora
                Mastonia
                Triphorinae
                Iniforinae
                Metaxiinae
                Eutriphora
                Isotriphora
                Latitriphora
                Mesophora
                Sagenotriphora
                Aclophora
                Tetraphora
                Differoforis
                Cautor
                Euthymella
                Euthymia
                Aclophoropsis
                Bouchetriphora
                Coriophora
                Teretriphora
                Epiforis
                Hedleytriphora
                Hypotriphora
                Liniphora
                Litharium
                Magnosinister
                Macrosinister
                Nanaphora
                Opimaphora
                Solosinister
                Subulophora
                Torresophora
                Viriolopsis
                Talophora
                Sychar
            Triforidae
            Newtoniellidae
          Epitonioidea
          Eulimoidea
          Ampullarioidea
          Campaniloidea
          Ptenoglossa
        Littorinimorpha
        Stenoglossa
        Hypsogastropoda
      Patellogastropoda
    Scaphopoda
    Bivalvia
    Monoplacophora
    Solenogastres
    Cephalopoda
    Placophora
    Aculifera
    Conchifera
    Pelecypoda
    Caudofoveata
    Lamellibranchiata
    Conchifera
  Porifera
  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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