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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
                Cautotriphora
                Mastonia
                  Mastonia maenades
                  Mastonia peanites
                  Mastonia squalida
                  Mastonia rubra
                  Mastonia guamensis
                  Mastonia bowenensis
                  Mastonia carteretensis
                  Mastonia cingulifera
                  Mastonia clavata
                  Mastonia claviculta
                  Mastonia clemens
                  Mastonia crassula
                  Mastonia funebris
                  Mastonia gracilis
                  Mastonia harperi
                  Mastonia hilaris
                  Mastonia hindsi
                  Mastonia iris
                  Mastonia issa
                  Mastonia lamberti
                  Mastonia millepunctata
                  Mastonia obtusa
                  Mastonia papillata
                  Mastonia perlata
                  Mastonia plecta
                  Mastonia queenslandica
                  Mastonia squamosa
                  Mastonia thetis
                  Mastonia tricolor
                  Mastonia troglodytes
                  Mastonia tulipa
                  Mastonia undata
                  Mastonia algens
                  Mastonia alveata
                  Mastonia anomala
                  Mastonia interpicta
                  Mastonia lineolata
                  Mastonia lusoria
                  Mastonia minutissima
                  Mastonia peasi
                  Mastonia rosea
                  Mastonia mediotincta
                  Mastonia reevei
                  Mastonia adamsi
                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
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
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