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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
  Platyhelminthes
  Nematoda
  Annelida
  Nemertina
  Arthropoda
    Crustacea
      Remipedia
      Branchiopoda
      Maxillopoda
        Mystacocarida
        Copepoda
          Progymnoplea
          Neocopepoda
            Gymnoplea
              Calanoida
                Acartiidae
                Aetideidae
                Arietellidae
                Augaptilidae
                Bathypontiidae
                Calanidae
                Candaciidae
                Centropagidae
                Clausocalanidae
                Diaixidae
                Discoidae
                Eucalanidae
                Euchaetidae
                Heterorhabdidae
                Lucicutiidae
                Mecynoceridae
                Megacalanidae
                Mesaiokeratidae
                Metridinidae
                Paracalanidae
                Parapontellidae
                Phaennidae
                Phyllopodidae
                Pontellidae
                Pseudocyclopidae
                Pseudocyclopiidae
                Pseudodiaptomidae
                Ridgewayiidae
                Ryocalanidae
                Scolecitrichidae
                  Amallothrix
                      Amallothrix arcuata
                      Amallothrix emarginata
                      Amallothrix falcifer
                      Amallothrix farrani
                      Amallothrix gracilis
                      Amallothrix paravalida
                      Amallothrix pseudoarcuata
                      Amallothrix robusta
                      Amallothrix sarsi
                      Amallothrix curticauda
                      Amallothrix indica
                      Amallothrix valida
                      Amallothrix obtusifrons
                      Amallothrix robustipes
                      Amallothrix mollis
                      Amallothrix auropecten
                      Amallothrix lobata
                      Amallothrix dentipes
                      Amallothrix parafalcifer
                      Amallothrix pseudopropinqua
                      Amallothrix aspinosa
                      Amallothrix invenusta
                      Amallothrix lobophora
                      Amallothrix longispina
                      Amallothrix aculeata
                      Amallothrix aequalis
                      Amallothrix altera
                      Amallothrix echinata
                      Amallothrix elephas
                      Amallothrix fowleri
                      Amallothrix globiceps
                      Amallothrix hadrosoma
                      Amallothrix ingolfi
                      Amallothrix inornata
                      Amallothrix laminata
                      Amallothrix pacifica
                      Amallothrix polaris
                      Amallothrix profunda
                      Amallothrix propinqua
                      Amallothrix tenuiserrata
                      Amallothrix valens
                      Amallothrix vervoorti
                      Amallothrix vorax
                      Amallothrix denticulata
                      Amallothrix lanceolata
                      Amallothrix modica
                      Amallothrix obscura
                      Amallothrix spinata
                      Amallothrix timida
                      Amallothrix tropica
                  Archescolecithrix
                  Heteramalla
                  Landrumius
                  Lophothrix
                  Mixtocalanus
                  Racovitzanus
                  Scaphocalanus
                  Scolecithricella
                  Scolecithrix
                  Scopalatum
                  Scottocalanus
                  Pseudophaenna
                  Brodskius
                  Byrathis
                  Cenognatha
                  Omorius
                  Paraxantharus
                  Plesioscolecithrix
                  Pseudoamallothrix
                  Scolecitrichopsis
                  Xantharus
                  Falsilandrumius
                  Grievella
                  Macandrewella
                  Bertalda
                  Bradfordiella
                  Parascaphocalanus
                  Puchinia
                  Scolecocalanus
                  Undinothrix
                  Diaiscolecithrix
                Spinocalanidae
                Stephidae
                Temoridae
                Tharybidae
                Pseudocalanidae
                Calocalanidae
                Nullosetigeridae
                Rhincalanidae
                Kyphocalanidae
                Rostrocalanidae
            Podoplea
          Thaumatopsylloida
        Branchiura
        Tantulocarida
        Thecostraca
        Pentastomida
      Malacostraca
      Ostracoda
      Pentastomata
    Chelicerata
    Myriapoda
    Hexapoda
  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