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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
                Chelidonichthys
                Lepidotrigla
                    Lepidotrigla cavillone
                    Lepidotrigla dieuzeidei
                    Lepidotrigla faurei
                    Lepidotrigla omanensis
                    Lepidotrigla bentuviai
                    Lepidotrigla bispinosa
                    Lepidotrigla spiloptera
                    Lepidotrigla multispinosa
                    Lepidotrigla abyssalis
                    Lepidotrigla alata
                    Lepidotrigla alcocki
                    Lepidotrigla annamarae
                    Lepidotrigla argus
                    Lepidotrigla argyrosoma
                    Lepidotrigla brachyoptera
                    Lepidotrigla cadmani
                    Lepidotrigla calodactyla
                    Lepidotrigla carolae
                    Lepidotrigla deasoni
                    Lepidotrigla eydouxii
                    Lepidotrigla grandis
                    Lepidotrigla guentheri
                    Lepidotrigla hime
                    Lepidotrigla japonica
                    Lepidotrigla jimjoebob
                    Lepidotrigla kanagashira
                    Lepidotrigla kishinouyi
                    Lepidotrigla larsoni
                    Lepidotrigla lepidojugulata
                    Lepidotrigla longifaciata
                    Lepidotrigla longimana
                    Lepidotrigla longipinnis
                    Lepidotrigla macrobrachia
                    Lepidotrigla marisinensis
                    Lepidotrigla microptera
                    Lepidotrigla modesta
                    Lepidotrigla mulhalli
                    Lepidotrigla musorstom
                    Lepidotrigla nana
                    Lepidotrigla oglina
                    Lepidotrigla papilio
                    Lepidotrigla pectoralis
                    Lepidotrigla pleuracanthica
                    Lepidotrigla punctipectoralis
                    Lepidotrigla robinsi
                    Lepidotrigla russelli
                    Lepidotrigla sayademalha
                    Lepidotrigla sereti
                    Lepidotrigla spinosa
                    Lepidotrigla umbrosa
                    Lepidotrigla vanessa
                    Lepidotrigla vaubani
                    Lepidotrigla venusta
                Trigla
                Eutrigla
                Aspitrigla
                Bovitrigla
                Cuculus
                Dixiphichthys
                Dixiphistes
                Dixiphistops
                Merulinus
                Otohime
                Pachytrigla
                Parapterygotrigla
                Paratrigla
                Uradia
                Eutriglia
                Lepidotrigal
                Chelidonyctis
                Pterigotrigla
                Pteryotrigla
              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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