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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
        Microcionina
        Mycalina
        Myxillina
          Coelosphaeridae
          Crambeidae
          Crellidae
          Dendoricellidae
          Desmacididae
          Hymedesmiidae
          Iotrochotidae
          Myxillidae
            Hastatus
            Herceus
            Dendoryx
            Hymenancora
            Melonanchora
            Myxilla
              Myxilla (Stelodoryx)
              Myxilla acribaria
              Myxilla arcitenens
              Myxilla barentsi
              Myxilla behringensis
              Myxilla brunnea
              Myxilla dentata
              Myxilla diversiancorata
              Myxilla fasciculata
              Myxilla fibrosa
              Myxilla fimbriata
              Myxilla flabelliformis
              Myxilla hastatispiculata
              Myxilla incrustans
              Myxilla inequitornota
              Myxilla involvens
              Myxilla iotrochotina
              Myxilla macrosigma
              Myxilla mariana
                  Myxilla mariana var. polysigma
                  Myxilla mariana var. tylacantha
                  Myxilla mariana var. massa
              Myxilla parasitica
              Myxilla pecqueryi
              Myxilla pedunculata
              Myxilla perspinosa
              Myxilla prouhoi
              Myxilla pulvinar
              Myxilla rosacea
              Myxilla rubiginosa
              Myxilla septentrionalis
              Myxilla tridens
              Myxilla veneta
              Myxilla (Burtonanchora)
              Myxilla (Ectyomyxilla)
              Myxilla (Myxilla)
              Myxilla (Styloptilon)
              Myxilla asigmata
              Myxilla elongata
              Myxilla australis
              Myxilla basimucronata
              Myxilla decepta
              Myxilla insolens
              Myxilla lissostyla
              Myxilla pistillaris
              Myxilla agennes
              Myxilla ancorata
              Myxilla arenaria
              Myxilla asymmetrica
              Myxilla bivalvia
              Myxilla caliciformis
              Myxilla chilensis
              Myxilla columna
              Myxilla compressa
              Myxilla crucifera
              Myxilla dendyi
              Myxilla distorta
              Myxilla dracula
              Myxilla elastica
              Myxilla flexitornota
              Myxilla gigas
              Myxilla gracilis
              Myxilla hastata
              Myxilla hentscheli
              Myxilla hiradoensis
              Myxilla iophonoides
              Myxilla kerguelensis
              Myxilla lacunosa
              Myxilla lobatus
              Myxilla magna
              Myxilla massa
              Myxilla methanophila
              Myxilla mexicensis
              Myxilla mollis
              Myxilla mucronata
              Myxilla myxilloides
              Myxilla novaezealandiae
              Myxilla patagonica
              Myxilla productus
              Myxilla ramosa
              Myxilla ramosa
              Myxilla setoensis
              Myxilla seychellensis
              Myxilla sigmatifera
              Myxilla spongiosa
              Myxilla swartschewskii
              Myxilla tenuissima
              Myxilla tornotata
              Myxilla victoriana
              Myxilla arborescens
              Myxilla californiana
              Myxilla fusifera
              Myxilla thela
              Myxilla amaknakensis
              Myxilla cratera
              Myxilla crelloides
              Myxilla digitata
              Myxilla frondosa
              Myxilla fusca
              Myxilla jacksoniana
              Myxilla nobilis
              Myxilla paucispinata
              Myxilla pygmaea
              Myxilla variisclera
              Myxilla grisea
              Myxilla tenuissima
              Myxilla versicolor
              Myxilla cribrigera
              Myxilla pluridentata
              Myxilla banyulensis
              Myxilla exigua
              Myxilla simplex
              Myxilla albula
              Myxilla radiata
              Myxilla forcipis
              Myxilla occulta
              Myxilla peachi
              Myxilla thompsoni
              Myxilla lurida
              Myxilla lundbecki
              Myxilla proteidea
              Myxilla grata
              Myxilla tarifensis
              Myxilla firma
              Myxilla funalis
              Myxilla anhelans
            Plocamiancora
            Styloptilon
            Damiriopsis
            Ectyonopis
            Ectyonopsis
            Psammochela
            Stelodoryx
            Ectomyxilla
            Ectyomyxilla
            Crellomyxilla
            Ectyonancora
            Hymesigmia
            Leptosiopsis
            Pseudomyxilla
            Stelotrochota
            Anomomyxilla
            Arndtanchora
            Chiastosia
            Emplocus
            Jelissima
            Onychomyxilla
            Plocamissa
            Psammodoryx
            Tereus
            Burtonanchora
          Tedaniidae
          Anchinoidae
          Desmacidonidae
          Chondropsidae
          Phellodermidae
        Latrunculina
      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
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
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