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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
      Malacostraca
        Eumalacostraca
          Eucarida
          Peracarida
            Isopoda
              Anthuridea
              Asellota
              Epicaridea
              Flabellifera
              Gnathiidea
              Microcerberidea
              Valvifera
              Oniscidea
                Scyphacidae
                Halophilosciidae
                Ligiidae
                Oniscidae
                Tylidae
                Armadillidiidae
                Ligiamorpha
                Trichoniscidae
                Philosciidae
                Scleropactidae
                Actaeciidae
                Agnaridae
                Alloniscidae
                Armadillidae
                    Polyacanthus
                    Acanthodillo
                    Acanthoniscus
                    Aethiopodillo
                    Akermania
                    Anchicubaris
                    Annobodillo
                    Anthrodillo
                    Armadillo
                    Aulacodillo
                    Australiodillo
                    Barnardillo
                    Barrowdillo
                    Bethalus
                    Buddelundia
                    Calendillo
                    Calmanesia
                    Chelomadillo
                    Coronadillo
                    Cosmeodillo
                    Cristarmadillo
                    Ctenorillo
                    Cubaris
                    Cubaroides
                    Cuckoldillo
                    Diploexochus
                    Dryadillo
                    Echinodillo
                    Emydodillo
                    Ethelumoris
                    Feadillo
                    Filippinodillo
                    Formosillo
                    Gabunillo
                    Globarmadillo
                    Glomerulus
                    Hawaiodillo
                    Hybodillo
                    Kimberleydillo
                    Laureola
                    Leucodillo
                    Lobodillo
                    Merulana
                    Merulanella
                    Mesodillo
                    Myrmecodillo
                    Nataldillo
                    Neodillo
                    Nesodillo
                    Ochetodillo
                    Orodillo
                    Orthodillo
                    Pachydillo
                    Papuadillo
                    Parakermania
                    Paraxenodillo
                    Pericephalus
                    Pseudodiploexochus
                    Pseudolaureola
                    Pseudolobodillo
                    Pyrgoniscus
                    Reductoniscus
                    Rhodesillo
                    Schismadillo
                    Sinodillo
                    Sphaerillodillo
                    Sphaerilloides
                    Sphenodillo
                    Spherillo
                    Stigmops
                    Sumatrillo
                    Synarmadillo
                    Togarmadillo
                    Tongadillo
                    Triadillo
                    Tridentodillo
                    Troglarmadillo
                    Troglodillo
                    Tuberillo
                    Venezillo
                Balloniscidae
                Bathytropidae
                Berytoniscidae
                Buddelundiellidae
                Cylisticidae
                Delatorreidae
                Detonidae
                Dubioniscidae
                Eubelidae
                Hekelidae
                Irmaosidae
                Meoniscidae
                Olibrinidae
                Platyarthridae
                Porcellionidae
                Pudeoniscidae
                Rhyscotidae
                Schoebliidae
                Scleropactidae
                Spelaeoniscidae
                Stenoniscidae
                Styloniscidae
                Tendosphaeridae
                Titaniidae
                Trachelipodidae
                Turanoniscidae
            Tanaidacea
            Amphipoda
            Cumacea
            Thermosbaenacea
            Mysidacea
            Mysida
            Lophogastrida
            Anisopoda
        Hoplocarida
      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
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