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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
  Ctenophora
  Cnidaria
  Sipuncula
  Echiura
  Pogonophora
  Entoprocta
  Tardigrada
  Phoronida
  Brachiopoda
  Echinodermata
  Hemichordata
  Chordata
    Urochordata
    Cephalochordata
    Vertebrata
      Gnathostomata
        Tetrapoda
        Pisces
          Elasmobranchii
          Actinopterygii
            Acipenseriformes
            Elopiformes
            Notacanthiformes
            Anguilliformes
            Saccopharyngiformes
            Clupeiformes
            Osmeriformes
            Salmoniformes
            Stomiiformes
            Ateleopodiformes
            Aulopiformes
            Myctophiformes
            Lampriformes
            Polymixiiformes
            Gadiformes
            Ophidiiformes
            Batrachoidiformes
            Lophiiformes
            Gobiesociformes
            Atheriniformes
            Cyprinodontiformes
            Beloniformes
            Stephanoberyciformes
            Beryciformes
            Cetomimiformes
            Gasterosteiformes
            Syngnathiformes
            Scorpaeniformes
              Agonidae
              Cottidae
              Cyclopteridae
              Dactylopteridae
              Peristediidae
              Platycephalidae
              Psychrolutidae
              Scorpaenidae
              Sebastidae
              Setarchidae
              Triglidae
              Liparidae
                Careproctus
                Liparis
                    Liparis fabricii
                    Liparis liparis
                    Liparis montagui
                    Liparis tunicatus
                    Liparis major
                    Liparis atlanticus
                    Liparis coheni
                    Liparis gibbus
                    Liparis inquilinus
                    Liparis fishelsoni
                    Liparis bristolensis
                    Liparis dennyi
                    Liparis koefodi
                    Liparis adiastolus
                    Liparis agassizii
                    Liparis alboventer
                    Liparis antarcticus
                    Liparis bikunin
                    Liparis brashnikovi
                    Liparis burkei
                    Liparis callyodon
                    Liparis catharus
                    Liparis chefuensis
                    Liparis curilensis
                    Liparis cyclopus
                    Liparis dubius
                    Liparis dulkeiti
                    Liparis eos
                    Liparis florae
                    Liparis frenatus
                    Liparis fucensis
                    Liparis grebnitzkii
                    Liparis greeni
                    Liparis kusnetzovi
                    Liparis kussakini
                    Liparis latifrons
                    Liparis marmoratus
                    Liparis mednius
                    Liparis megacephalus
                    Liparis micraspidophorus
                    Liparis miostomus
                    Liparis mucosus
                    Liparis newmani
                    Liparis ochotensis
                    Liparis owstoni
                    Liparis petschiliensis
                    Liparis pravdini
                    Liparis pulchellus
                    Liparis punctatus
                    Liparis punctulatus
                    Liparis rhodosoma
                    Liparis rotundirostris
                    Liparis rutteri
                    Liparis schantarensis
                    Liparis schmidti
                    Liparis tanakae
                    Liparis tartaricus
                    Liparis tessellatus
                    Liparis tunicatiformis
                    Liparis zonatus
                    Liparis maculatus
                Paraliparis
                Psednos
                Rhodichthys
                Acantholiparis
                Allocareproctus
                Crystallias
                Crystallichthys
                Eknomoliparis
                Elassodiscus
                Gyrinichthys
                Lipariscus
                Lopholiparis
                Menziesichthys
                Nectoliparis
                Odontoliparis
                Osteodiscus
                Palmoliparis
                Polypera
                Praematoliparis
                Prognatholiparis
                Pseudoliparis
                Pseudonotoliparis
                Rhinoliparis
                Squaloliparis
                Temnocora
                Amitra
                Bathyphasma
                Cyclogaster
                Enantioliparis
                Gymnolycodes
                Neoliparis
                Prognurus
                Trismegistus
                Loparis
            Pleuronectiformes
            Tetraodontiformes
            Zeiformes
            Perciformes
            Mugiliformes
          Holocephali
      Agnatha
    Tunicata
  Gastrotricha
  Chaetognatha
  Ectoprocta
  Mesozoa
  Rotifera
  Gnathostomulida
  Acanthocephala
  Cycliophora
  Cephalorhyncha
  Placozoa
  Bryozoa
  Myxozoa
  Sipunculida
  Pentastomida
  Nemertini
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera