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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
                Arcturidae
                Chaetiliidae
                Holognathidae
                Idoteidae
                Austrarcturellidae
                Antarcturidae
                  Pleuroprion
                  Antarcturus
                    Antarcturus horridus
                    Antarcturus polaris
                    Antarcturus alimus
                    Antarcturus furcatus
                        Antarcturus furcatus furcatus
                        Antarcturus furcatus latispinis
                    Antarcturus giganteus
                    Antarcturus glacialis
                    Antarcturus hempeli
                    Antarcturus johnstoni
                    Antarcturus nonatoi
                    Antarcturus signiensis
                    Antarcturus spinacoronatus
                    Antarcturus strasseni
                    Antarcturus usitatus
                    Antarcturus weddelli
                    Antarcturus andriashevi
                    Antarcturus breidensis
                    Antarcturus caecus
                    Antarcturus hirsutus
                    Antarcturus hodgsoni
                    Antarcturus kamtschaticus
                    Antarcturus kilepoae
                    Antarcturus kladophoros
                    Antarcturus multispinis
                    Antarcturus oryx
                    Antarcturus pacificus
                    Antarcturus princeps
                    Antarcturus schmidti
                    Antarcturus zenkevitchi
                    Antarcturus bicornis
                    Antarcturus abyssalis
                    Antarcturus aculeatus
                    Antarcturus acutispinis
                    Antarcturus adareanus
                    Antarcturus bathybialis
                    Antarcturus bovinus
                    Antarcturus brunneus
                    Antarcturus oligospinis
                    Antarcturus praecipius
                    Antarcturus ultraabyssalis
                    Antarcturus anna
                    Antarcturus hiemalis
                    Antarcturus meridionalis
                    Antarcturus hirticornis
                    Antarcturus antarcticus
                    Antarcturus granulosus
                    Antarcturus lillei
                    Antarcturus beliaevei
                    Antarcturus dubius
                    Antarcturus gaussianus
                    Antarcturus similis
                    Antarcturus belgicae
                    Antarcturus cactiformis
                    Antarcturus drygalskii
                    Antarcturus acanthurus
                    Antarcturus debilis
                    Antarcturus echinatus
                    Antarcturus globicaudis
                    Antarcturus ornatus
                  Chaetarcturus
                  Litarcturus
                  Acantharcturus
                  Cylindrarcturus
                  Fissarcturus
                  Globarcturus
                  Tuberarcturus
                  Abyssarcturus
                  Caecarcturus
                  Furcarcturus
                  Glaberarcturus
                  Mixarcturus
                  Oxyarcturus
                  Spinarcturus
                  Thermoarcturus
                  Antares
                Holidoteidae
                Pseudidotheidae
                Rectarcturidae
                Astacillidae
                Idotheidae
                Arcturididae
                Xenarcturidae
                Amesopodidae
              Oniscidea
            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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