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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
  Platyhelminthes
  Nematoda
  Annelida
  Nemertina
  Arthropoda
  Ctenophora
  Cnidaria
  Sipuncula
  Echiura
  Pogonophora
  Entoprocta
  Tardigrada
  Phoronida
  Brachiopoda
  Echinodermata
  Hemichordata
  Chordata
    Urochordata
    Cephalochordata
    Vertebrata
    Tunicata
      Ascidiacea
        Aplousobranchia
        Phlebobranchia
        Stolidobranchia
          Molgulidae
          Pyuridae
          Styelidae
            Alloeocarpa
            Bathyoncus
            Bathystyeloides
            Botrylloides
            Botryllus
            Cnemidocarpa
            Dendrodoa
            Dicarpa
            Distomus
            Eusynstyela
            Kukenthalia
            Pelonaia
            Polyandrocarpa
            Polycarpa
            Protostyela
            Psammostyela
            Seriocarpa
            Stolonica
            Styela
              Styela adriatica
              Styela atlantica
              Styela bathybia
              Styela calva
              Styela canopus
                  Styela canopus magalhaensis
              Styela chaini
              Styela charcoti
              Styela clava
              Styela coriacea
              Styela crinita
              Styela gelatinosa
              Styela gibbsii
              Styela loculosa
              Styela partita
              Styela plicata
              Styela rustica
              Styela sigma
              Styela similis
              Styela thalassae
              Styela glans
              Styela squamosa
              Styela wandeli
              Styela materna
              Styela marquesana
              Styela radicata
              Styela prolifera
              Styela miniata
              Styela costata
              Styela aequatorialis
              Styela angularis
              Styela pupa
              Styela montereyensis
              Styela longitubis
              Styela asterogama
              Styela barnharti
              Styela brevigaster
              Styela changa
              Styela clavata
              Styela complexa
              Styela eurygaster
              Styela gagetyleri
              Styela grahami
              Styela hemicaespitosa
              Styela izuana
              Styela kottae
              Styela longiducta
              Styela longipedata
              Styela macrenteron
              Styela magalhaensis
              Styela mallei
              Styela meandria
              Styela meteoris
              Styela minima
              Styela monogamica
              Styela natalis
              Styela ordinaria
              Styela paessleri
              Styela polypes
              Styela psoliformis
              Styela schmitti
              Styela serpentina
              Styela subpinguis
              Styela suluensis
              Styela talpina
              Styela tenuibranchia
              Styela tesseris
              Styela tokiokai
              Styela truncata
              Styela uniplicata
              Styela yakutatensis
              Styela argillacea
              Styela glebosa
              Styela herdmani
              Styela perforata
              Styela profunda
              Styela psammodes
              Styela sedata
              Styela traustedti
              Styela cylindrica
              Styela hadalis
              Styela multitentaculata
              Styela depressa
              Styela elata
              Styela aggregata
              Styela albomarginata
              Styela anguinea
              Styela aomori
              Styela apalina
              Styela appropinquata
              Styela arctica
              Styela areolata
              Styela argentata
              Styela armata
              Styela ascidioides
              Styela asiphonica
              Styela asymmetra
              Styela aurata
              Styela aurita
              Styela barbaris
              Styela bathyphila
              Styela bicolor
              Styela bicornuta
              Styela biforis
              Styela brevipedunculata
              Styela bythia
              Styela canopoides
              Styela captiosa
              Styela cartilaginea
              Styela cerea
              Styela circumarata
              Styela clara
              Styela coerulea
              Styela comata
              Styela conica
              Styela contecta
              Styela convexa
              Styela cryptocarpa
              Styela curtzei
              Styela cylindriformis
              Styela doliolum
              Styela drygalskii
              Styela elsa
              Styela esther
              Styela etheridgii
              Styela exigua
              Styela fertilis
              Styela fibrillata
              Styela finmarkiensis
              Styela flava
              Styela flexibilis
              Styela floccosa
              Styela friabilis
              Styela fuliginea
              Styela gracilocarpa
              Styela grandis
              Styela granulata
              Styela greeleyi
              Styela grossularia
              Styela gyrosa
              Styela humilis
              Styela hupferi
              Styela incubita
              Styela informis
              Styela insinuosa
              Styela insulsa
              Styela irene
              Styela irma
              Styela joannae
              Styela kroboja
              Styela lactea
              Styela lapidosa
              Styela lineata
              Styela lobata
              Styela longata
              Styela loveni
              Styela lovenii
              Styela macrogastra
              Styela maculata
              Styela mammiculata
              Styela maroccana
              Styela melincae
              Styela milleri
              Styela mollis
              Styela monoceros
              Styela natalensis
              Styela nidrosiensis
              Styela nisiotis
              Styela nivosa
              Styela nordenskjöldi
              Styela northumbrica
              Styela nutrix
              Styela oblonga
              Styela obscura
              Styela obtecta
              Styela ohlini
              Styela oligocarpa
              Styela olitoria
              Styela opalina
              Styela orbicularis
              Styela papillata
              Styela partito
              Styela pavementis
              Styela pedata
              Styela personata
              Styela pfefferi
              Styela phaula
              Styela pigmentata
              Styela pinguis
              Styela plata
              Styela pneumonodes
              Styela procera
              Styela psoloessa
              Styela quadrangularis
              Styela quadrata
              Styela quidni
              Styela ramificata
              Styela rectangularis
              Styela reducta
              Styela reniformis
              Styela rhizopus
              Styela robusta
              Styela rotunda
              Styela rubida
              Styela rubra
              Styela sabulifera
              Styela salebrosa
              Styela seminuda
              Styela sericata
              Styela solvens
              Styela sobria
              Styela spectabilis
              Styela spirifera
              Styela steineni
              Styela stephensoni
              Styela stimpsoni
              Styela stolonifera
              Styela sulcatula
              Styela theeli
              Styela thelyphanes
              Styela tholiformis
              Styela tinaktae
              Styela tuberosa
              Styela variabilis
              Styela verrucosa
              Styela vestita
              Styela violacea
              Styela whiteleggei
              Styela whiteleggii
              Styela personata
              Styela radicosa
              Styela etheridgii
              Styela stolonifera
              Styela bermudensis
              Styela pinguis
              Styela papillata
              Styela ambonensis
              Styela palinorsa
              Styela patens
              Styela pustulosa
              Styela spiralis
            Tibitin
            Minostyela
            Polyzoa
            Metrocarpa
            Dextrocarpa
            Gynandrocarpa
            Metandrocarpa
            Symplegma
            Amphicarpa
            Alcyonium
            Alleocarpa
            Arnbackia
            Asterocarpa
            Azygocarpa
            Berillia
            Botryllocarpa
            Botryorchis
            Chorizocarpa
            Chorizocormus
            Clavellinopsis
            Diandrocarpa
            Dictyostyela
            Glandula
            Goniocarpa
            Goodsiria
            Katatropa
            Michaelsenia
            Molstyela
            Monandrocarpa
            Monoandrocarpa
            Monobotryllus
            Myxobotrus
            Oculinaria
            Okamia
            Oligocarpa
            Pandocia
            Parabotryllus
            Polycyclus
            Protobotryllus
            Psammobotrus
            Psilostyela
            Redikorzevia
            Sarcobotrylloides
            Styeloides
            Styelopsis
            Syncarpa
            Synstyela
            Theodorella
            Thylacium
            Vannamea
            Ypsilocarpa
            Podostyela
          Hexacrobylidae
      Larvacea
      Sorberacea
      Thaliacea
      Appendicularia
  Gastrotricha
  Chaetognatha
  Ectoprocta
  Mesozoa
  Rotifera
  Gnathostomulida
  Acanthocephala
  Cycliophora
  Cephalorhyncha
  Placozoa
  Bryozoa
  Myxozoa
  Sipunculida
  Pentastomida
  Nemertini
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera