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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
                    Androniscus
                    Acteoniscus
                    Aegonethes
                    Alistratia
                    Alpioniscus
                    Amerigoniscus
                    Anatoliscus
                    Balearonethes
                    Balkanoniscus
                    Banatoniscus
                    Bergamoniscus
                    Beroniscus
                    Biharoniscus
                    Brackenridgia
                    Bulgaronethes
                    Bulgaroniscus
                    Bureschia
                    Calconiscellus
                    Cantabroniscus
                    Carloniscus
                    Castellanethes
                    Catalauniscus
                    Caucasocyphoniscus
                    Caucasonethes
                    Colchidoniscus
                    Cretoniscellus
                    Cylindroniscus
                    Cyphobrembana
                    Cypholambrana
                    Cyphonethes
                    Cyphoniscellus
                    Cyphopleon
                    Cyphotendana
                    Cyrnoniscus
                    Escualdoniscus
                    Finaloniscus
                    Graeconiscus
                    Haplophthalmus
                    Helenoniscus
                    Hondoniscus
                    Hyloniscus
                    Iberoniscus
                    Italoniscus
                    Katascaphius
                    Lapilloniscus
                    Leucocyphoniscus
                    Libanonethes
                    Macedonethes
                    Metatrichoniscoides
                    Mexiconiscus
                    Microtitanethes
                    Miktoniscus
                    Mingrelloniscus
                    Minoscellus
                    Monocyphoniscus
                    Moserius
                    Murgeoniscus
                    Neotrichoniscus
                    Nesiotoniscus
                    Nippononethes
                    Oregoniscus
                    Oritoniscus
                    Paracyphoniscus
                    Phymatoniscus
                    Pleurocyphoniscus
                    Protonethes
                    Psachonethes
                    Rhodopioniscus
                    Scotoniscus
                    Siciloniscus
                    Spelaeonethes
                    Strouhaloniscellus
                    Stylohylea
                    Tachysoniscus
                    Tauronethes
                    Thaumatoniscellus
                    Titanethes
                    Trichonethes
                    Trichoniscoides
                    Trichoniscus
                    Tricyphoniscus
                    Troglocyphoniscus
                    Troglonethes
                    Turkonethes
                    Typhlotricholigioides
                    Utopioniscus
                    Vandeloniscellus
                    Vardaroniscus
                Philosciidae
                Scleropactidae
                Actaeciidae
                Agnaridae
                Alloniscidae
                Armadillidae
                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
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
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Monera