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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
      Verongida
        Aplysinidae
          Verongia
          Aplysina
              Aplysina aerophoba
              Aplysina carnosa
              Aplysina cavernicola
              Aplysina corneostellata
              Aplysina massa
              Aplysina noevus
              Aplysina tuberosa
              Aplysina applicata
              Aplysina archeri
              Aplysina aurea
              Aplysina bathyphila
              Aplysina cacos
              Aplysina caissara
              Aplysina capensis
              Aplysina cauliformis
              Aplysina cellulosa
              Aplysina compacta
              Aplysina compressa
              Aplysina euplectella
              Aplysina fistularis
              Aplysina fulva
              Aplysina gerardogreeni
              Aplysina higginsii
              Aplysina hirsuta
              Aplysina holda
              Aplysina inflata
              Aplysina insularis
              Aplysina lacunosa
              Aplysina lendenfeldi
              Aplysina maeandrina
              Aplysina minima
              Aplysina minuta
              Aplysina nuciformis
              Aplysina ocracea
              Aplysina pergamentacea
              Aplysina picea
              Aplysina primitiva
              Aplysina procumbens
              Aplysina ramosa
              Aplysina reticulata
              Aplysina sebae
              Aplysina spengelii
              Aplysina janusi
              Aplysina cruor
              Aplysina anomala
              Aplysina flagelliformis
              Aplysina fragilis
              Aplysina rugosa
              Aplysina longissima
              Aplysina spiculifera
              Aplysina caespitosa
              Aplysina massa
              Aplysina grisea
              Aplysina gigantea
              Aplysina praetexta
              Aplysina mollis
              Aplysina praetensa
              Aplysina azteca
              Aplysina fusca
              Aplysina regularis
              Aplysina aurea
              Aplysina laevis
              Aplysina purpurea
              Aplysina herdmani
              Aplysina aggregata
              Aplysina cauliformis
              Aplysina chalinoides
              Aplysina incrustans
              Aplysina chiriquiensis
              Aplysina ecuatorensis
              Aplysina zetlandica
              Aplysina alcicornis
              Aplysina cristagallus
              Aplysina lactuca
              Aplysina lingua
              Aplysina muricyana
              Aplysina orthoreticulata
              Aplysina pseudolacunosa
              Aplysina solangeae
              Aplysina ianthelliformis
              Aplysina tenuissima
              Aplysina elegans
              Aplysina pedicellata
          Aiolochroia
          Verongula
          Dendrospongia
          Luffaria
        Aplysinellidae
        Ianthellidae
        Pseudoceratinidae
        Verongiidae
      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
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