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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
            Sertulariidae
              Abietinaria
              Amphisbetia
              Cnidoscyphus
              Diphasia
              Dynamena
              Hydrallmania
              Salacia
              Selaginopsis
              Sertularella
              Sertularia
              Symplectoscyphus
                  Symplectoscyphus amphoriferus
                  Symplectoscyphus bathyalis
                  Symplectoscyphus tricuspidatus
                  Symplectoscyphus cumberlandicus
                  Symplectoscyphus curvatus
                  Symplectoscyphus divaricatus
                  Symplectoscyphus glacialis
                  Symplectoscyphus hero
                  Symplectoscyphus naumovi
                  Symplectoscyphus nesioticus
                  Symplectoscyphus plectilis
                  Symplectoscyphus subdichotomus
                  Symplectoscyphus vanhoeffeni
                  Symplectoscyphus sofiae
                  Symplectoscyphus anae
                  Symplectoscyphus frigidus
                  Symplectoscyphus exochus
                  Symplectoscyphus interruptus
                  Symplectoscyphus liouvillei
                  Symplectoscyphus weddelli
                  Symplectoscyphus aggregatus
                  Symplectoscyphus erectus
                  Symplectoscyphus adpressus
                  Symplectoscyphus amoenus
                  Symplectoscyphus arboriformis
                  Symplectoscyphus bathypacificus
                  Symplectoscyphus candelabrum
                  Symplectoscyphus chubuticus
                  Symplectoscyphus columnarius
                  Symplectoscyphus commensalis
                  Symplectoscyphus confusus
                  Symplectoscyphus densestriatus
                  Symplectoscyphus dentiferus
                  Symplectoscyphus effusus
                  Symplectoscyphus elegans
                  Symplectoscyphus epizoicus
                  Symplectoscyphus epizooticus
                  Symplectoscyphus erectus
                  Symplectoscyphus exsertus
                  Symplectoscyphus filiformis
                  Symplectoscyphus flexilis
                  Symplectoscyphus fuscus
                  Symplectoscyphus howensis
                  Symplectoscyphus hozawai
                  Symplectoscyphus huanghaiensis
                  Symplectoscyphus hydrallmaniaeformis
                  Symplectoscyphus incisus
                  Symplectoscyphus indivisus
                  Symplectoscyphus infractus
                  Symplectoscyphus irregularis
                  Symplectoscyphus johnstoni
                  Symplectoscyphus laevis
                  Symplectoscyphus leloupi
                  Symplectoscyphus levinseni
                  Symplectoscyphus longithecus
                  Symplectoscyphus macrocarpa
                  Symplectoscyphus macrogonus
                  Symplectoscyphus macroscyphus
                  Symplectoscyphus macrotheca
                  Symplectoscyphus magellanicus
                  Symplectoscyphus margaritaceus
                  Symplectoscyphus marionensis
                  Symplectoscyphus millardi
                  Symplectoscyphus milneanus
                  Symplectoscyphus minutus
                  Symplectoscyphus modestus
                  Symplectoscyphus monopleura
                  Symplectoscyphus multinodus
                  Symplectoscyphus neglectus
                  Symplectoscyphus odontiferus
                  Symplectoscyphus pallidus
                  Symplectoscyphus paraglacialis
                  Symplectoscyphus paulensis
                  Symplectoscyphus pedrensis
                  Symplectoscyphus pedunculatus
                  Symplectoscyphus pinnatus
                  Symplectoscyphus pluma
                  Symplectoscyphus procerus
                  Symplectoscyphus pseudocolumnarius
                  Symplectoscyphus pseudodivaricatus
                  Symplectoscyphus pulchellus
                  Symplectoscyphus pushi
                  Symplectoscyphus pygmaeus
                  Symplectoscyphus ralphae
                  Symplectoscyphus rentoni
                  Symplectoscyphus ritchiei
                  Symplectoscyphus rostratus
                  Symplectoscyphus rubellus
                  Symplectoscyphus salvadorensis
                  Symplectoscyphus secundus
                  Symplectoscyphus sibogae
                  Symplectoscyphus singularis
                  Symplectoscyphus sinuosus
                  Symplectoscyphus spiraliformis
                  Symplectoscyphus subarticulatus
                  Symplectoscyphus trimucronatus
                  Symplectoscyphus tropicus
                  Symplectoscyphus tuba
                  Symplectoscyphus turgidus
                  Symplectoscyphus unilateralis
                  Symplectoscyphus valdesicus
                  Symplectoscyphus vervoorti
                  Symplectoscyphus grandis
                  Symplectoscyphus mawsoni
                  Symplectoscyphus watsonae
                  Symplectoscyphus constrictus
                  Symplectoscyphus spiritualis
                  Symplectoscyphus variablis
                  Symplectoscyphus spiralis
                  Symplectoscyphus amphorifer
                  Symplectoscyphus sieboldi
                  Symplectoscyphus magnificus
                  Symplectoscyphus frondosus
                  Symplectoscyphus similis
                  Symplectoscyphus macrocarpus
                  Symplectoscyphus macrothecus
                  Symplectoscyphus patagonicus
              Tamarisca
              Thuiaria
              Dymella
              Biseriaria
              Tridentata
              Pericladium
              Staurotheca
              Thyroscyphus
              Calamphora
              Caminothujaria
              Crateritheca
              Dictyocladium
              Fraseroscyphus
              Gigantotheca
              Gonaxia
              Hypopyxis
              Papilionella
              Stereotheca
              Tasmanaria
              Geminella
              Diphasis
              Monopoma
              Diphasiella
              Idiella
              Idia
              Pasya
            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