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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
                Sebastinae
                  Helicolenus
                  Sebastes
                    Sebastes fasciatus
                    Sebastes marinus
                    Sebastes mentella
                    Sebastes viviparus
                    Sebastes norvegicus
                    Sebastes capensis
                    Sebastes chrysomelas
                    Sebastes alutus
                    Sebastes aleutianus
                    Sebastes atrovirens
                    Sebastes auriculatus
                    Sebastes aurora
                    Sebastes babcocki
                    Sebastes baramenuke
                    Sebastes borealis
                    Sebastes brevispinis
                    Sebastes carnatus
                    Sebastes caurinus
                    Sebastes chlorostictus
                    Sebastes ciliatus
                    Sebastes constellatus
                    Sebastes cortezi
                    Sebastes crameri
                    Sebastes dallii
                    Sebastes diploproa
                    Sebastes elongatus
                    Sebastes emphaeus
                    Sebastes ensifer
                    Sebastes entomelas
                    Sebastes eos
                    Sebastes exsul
                    Sebastes flammeus
                    Sebastes flavidus
                    Sebastes gilli
                    Sebastes glaucus
                    Sebastes goodei
                    Sebastes helvomaculatus
                    Sebastes hopkinsi
                    Sebastes hubbsi
                    Sebastes ijimae
                    Sebastes inermis
                    Sebastes iracundus
                    Sebastes itinus
                    Sebastes jordani
                    Sebastes joyneri
                    Sebastes kawaradae
                    Sebastes kiyomatsui
                    Sebastes koreanus
                    Sebastes lentiginosus
                    Sebastes levis
                    Sebastes longispinis
                    Sebastes macdonaldi
                    Sebastes maliger
                    Sebastes matsubarae
                    Sebastes melanops
                    Sebastes melanosema
                    Sebastes melanostomus
                    Sebastes miniatus
                    Sebastes minor
                    Sebastes moseri
                    Sebastes mystinus
                    Sebastes nebulosus
                    Sebastes nigrocinctus
                    Sebastes nivosus
                    Sebastes notius
                    Sebastes oblongus
                    Sebastes oculatus
                    Sebastes ovalis
                    Sebastes owstoni
                    Sebastes paucispinis
                    Sebastes peduncularis
                    Sebastes phillipsi
                    Sebastes pinniger
                    Sebastes polyspinis
                    Sebastes proriger
                    Sebastes rastrelliger
                    Sebastes reedi
                    Sebastes rosaceus
                    Sebastes rosenblatti
                    Sebastes ruber
                    Sebastes ruberrimus
                    Sebastes rubrivinctus
                    Sebastes rufinanus
                    Sebastes rufus
                    Sebastes saxicola
                    Sebastes schlegelii
                    Sebastes scythropus
                    Sebastes semicinctus
                    Sebastes serranoides
                    Sebastes serriceps
                    Sebastes simulator
                    Sebastes sinensis
                    Sebastes spinorbis
                    Sebastes steindachneri
                    Sebastes swifti
                    Sebastes taczanowskii
                    Sebastes thompsoni
                    Sebastes trivittatus
                    Sebastes umbrosus
                    Sebastes variegatus
                    Sebastes varispinis
                    Sebastes ventricosus
                    Sebastes vulpes
                    Sebastes wakiyai
                    Sebastes wilsoni
                    Sebastes zacentrus
                    Sebastes zonatus
                    Sebastes pachycephalus
                        Sebastes pachycephalus pachycephalus
                        Sebastes pachycephalus nudus
                        Sebastes pachycephalus nigricans
                        Sebastes pachycephalus chalcogrammus
                    Sebastes variabilis
                  Hozukius
                  Sebastiscus
                  Acutomentum
                  Pteropodus
                  Sebastodes
                  Sebastosomus
                  Sebasticus
                  Sebastostomus
                Sebastolobinae
              Setarchidae
              Triglidae
              Liparidae
            Pleuronectiformes
            Tetraodontiformes
            Zeiformes
            Perciformes
            Mugiliformes
          Holocephali
      Agnatha
    Tunicata
  Gastrotricha
  Chaetognatha
  Ectoprocta
  Mesozoa
  Rotifera
  Gnathostomulida
  Acanthocephala
  Cycliophora
  Cephalorhyncha
  Placozoa
  Bryozoa
  Myxozoa
  Sipunculida
  Pentastomida
  Nemertini
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Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
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Viruses
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