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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
    Anthozoa
    Hydrozoa
      Hydroidolina
        Siphonophorae
        Anthoathecata
        Leptothecata
          Conica
            Aglaopheniidae
            Campanulinidae
            Haleciidae
            Lafoeidae
            Laodiceidae
            Lovenellidae
            Phialellidae
            Plumulariidae
              Monotheca
              Nemertesia
              Plumularia
                  Plumularia canariensis
                  Plumularia falcicula
                  Plumularia filicula
                  Plumularia floridana
                  Plumularia linkoi
                  Plumularia obliqua
                  Plumularia setacea
                  Plumularia syriaca
                  Plumularia macleodii
                  Plumularia pluma
                  Plumularia echinulata
                  Plumularia falcata
                  Plumularia cristata
                  Plumularia gracillima
                  Plumularia curvata
                  Plumularia insignis
                  Plumularia halecioides
                  Plumularia wasini
                  Plumularia filicaulis
                  Plumularia gracilis
                  Plumularia spiralis
                  Plumularia acutifrons
                  Plumularia adjecta
                  Plumularia aglaophenoides
                  Plumularia alata
                  Plumularia altitheca
                  Plumularia angusta
                  Plumularia annuligera
                  Plumularia anonyma
                  Plumularia antonbruuni
                  Plumularia attenuata
                  Plumularia aurita
                  Plumularia australiensis
                  Plumularia australis
                  Plumularia badia
                  Plumularia bedoti
                  Plumularia biarmata
                  Plumularia brachiata
                  Plumularia caliculata
                  Plumularia camarata
                  Plumularia campanuloides
                  Plumularia caulitheca
                  Plumularia compressa
                  Plumularia congregata
                  Plumularia corrugatissima
                  Plumularia crater
                  Plumularia crateriformis
                  Plumularia crateroides
                  Plumularia cylindrica
                  Plumularia defecta
                  Plumularia delicata
                  Plumularia dendritica
                  Plumularia dolichotheca
                  Plumularia duseni
                  Plumularia epibracteolosa
                  Plumularia excavata
                  Plumularia exilis
                  Plumularia flabellata
                  Plumularia flexuosa
                  Plumularia galapagensis
                  Plumularia goldsteini
                  Plumularia goodei
                  Plumularia habereri
                  Plumularia hargitti
                  Plumularia hyalina
                  Plumularia indica
                  Plumularia insolens
                  Plumularia inverta
                  Plumularia irregularis
                  Plumularia jaederholmi
                  Plumularia jordani
                  Plumularia kirkpatricki
                  Plumularia kossowskae
                  Plumularia lagenifera
                  Plumularia leloupi
                  Plumularia macrotheca
                  Plumularia margaretta
                  Plumularia megalocephala
                  Plumularia meganema
                  Plumularia meretriacia
                  Plumularia micronema
                  Plumularia mobilis
                  Plumularia moneroni
                  Plumularia mossambicae
                  Plumularia mula
                  Plumularia mutabilis
                  Plumularia nodosa
                  Plumularia obesa
                  Plumularia opima
                  Plumularia orientalis
                  Plumularia paucinema
                  Plumularia paucinoda
                  Plumularia polycladia
                  Plumularia polynema
                  Plumularia posidoniae
                  Plumularia procumbens
                  Plumularia propinqua
                  Plumularia providentiae
                  Plumularia pulchella
                  Plumularia ramulifera
                  Plumularia reversa
                  Plumularia rotunda
                  Plumularia rugosa
                  Plumularia scabra
                  Plumularia setaceiformis
                  Plumularia setaceoides
                  Plumularia siliculata
                  Plumularia spinulosa
                  Plumularia spiralis
                  Plumularia spirocladia
                  Plumularia strictocarpa
                  Plumularia strobilophora
                  Plumularia stylifera
                  Plumularia tenuissima
                  Plumularia togata
                  Plumularia tubacarpa
                  Plumularia undulata
                  Plumularia variabilis
                  Plumularia varians
                  Plumularia venusta
                  Plumularia vervoorti
                  Plumularia virginiae
                  Plumularia warreni
                  Plumularia wattsi
                  Plumularia michaelseni
                  Plumularia sulcata
                  Plumularia inermis
                  Plumularia balei
                  Plumularia everta
                  Plumularia ventruosa
                  Plumularia nova
                  Plumularia crosslandi
                  Plumularia asymmetrica
                  Plumularia multiramosa
                  Plumularia parva
                  Plumularia septata
                  Plumularia sinuosa
                  Plumularia diploptera
                  Plumularia wilsoni
                  Plumularia sargassi
                  Plumularia corrugata
                  Plumularia pennycuikae
                  Plumularia struthionides
                  Plumularia magellanica
                  Plumularia clarkei
                  Plumularia nuttingi
                  Plumularia tenuissima
                  Plumularia brachiata
                  Plumularia aurita
                  Plumularia singularis
                  Plumularia corrugata
                  Plumularia flabellum
                  Plumularia gaimardi
                  Plumularia lucerna
                  Plumularia tenuis
                  Plumularia tenuis
                  Plumularia delicatula
                  Plumularia delicatula
                  Plumularia delicatula
                  Plumularia vervoorti
                  Plumularia amphibola
                  Plumularia gracilis
              Polyplumaria
              Pseudoplumaria
              Antennularia
              Polyplumularia
              Lytocarpus
              Callicarpa
              Cladacanthella
              Dentitheca
              Hippurella
              Sibogella
              Monothecella
              Polynemertesia
              Stechowia
            Sertulariidae
            Aequoreidae
            Mitrocomidae
            Eirenidae
            Eucheilotidae
            Tiarannidae
            Barcinididae
            Blackfordiidae
            Dipleurosomatidae
            Halopterididae
            Kirchenpaueriidae
            Malagazziidae
            Melicertidae
            Orchistomidae
            Tiaropsidae
            Syntheciidae
            Hebellidae
            Teclaiidae
            Cirrholoveniidae
            Clathrozoidae
            Lineolariidae
            Octocannoididae
            Sugiuridae
          Proboscoida
        Laingiomedusae
        Anthomedusae
        Leptomedusae
        Gymnoblastea
        Athecata
        Thecata
        Siphonophora
      Trachylinae
      Hydroida
      Leptolinae
    Cnidaria incertae sedis
    Cubozoa
    Scyphozoa
    Staurozoa
  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
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera