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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
              Anguillidae
                Anguilla
                  Anguilla anguilla
                  Anguilla brevirostris
                  Anguilla rostrata
                  Anguilla bicolor
                  Anguilla bengalensis
                  Anguilla marmorata
                  Anguilla mossambica
                  Anguilla celebesensis
                  Anguilla dieffenbachii
                  Anguilla interioris
                  Anguilla japonica
                  Anguilla malgumora
                  Anguilla megastoma
                  Anguilla nebulosa
                  Anguilla nigricans
                  Anguilla obscura
                  Anguilla reinhardtii
                  Anguilla australis
                  Anguilla acutirostris
                  Anguilla aegyptiaca
                  Anguilla altirostris
                  Anguilla ancidda
                  Anguilla bibroni
                  Anguilla callensis
                  Anguilla canariensis
                  Anguilla capitone
                  Anguilla cloacina
                  Anguilla conger
                  Anguilla cuvieri
                  Anguilla eurystoma
                  Anguilla fluviatilis
                  Anguilla fluviatilis
                  Anguilla hibernica
                  Anguilla kieneri
                  Anguilla latirostris
                  Anguilla linnei
                  Anguilla marginata
                  Anguilla marina
                  Anguilla mediorostris
                  Anguilla melanochir
                  Anguilla microptera
                  Anguilla migratoria
                  Anguilla morena
                  Anguilla nilotica
                  Anguilla nilotica
                  Anguilla oblongirostris
                  Anguilla obtusa
                  Anguilla platycephala
                  Anguilla platyrhynchus
                  Anguilla savignyi
                  Anguilla septembrina
                  Anguilla vulgaris
                      Anguilla vulgaris fluviatilis
                      Anguilla vulgaris lacustus
                      Anguilla vulgaris marina
                      Anguilla vulgaris ornithorhincha
                      Anguilla vulgaris platyura
                  Anguilla anguillia
                  Anguilla elphinstonei
                  Anguilla huangi
                  Anguilla luzonensis
                Tribranchus
                Angill
              Chlopsidae
              Congridae
              Derichthyidae
              Heterenchelyidae
              Muraenesocidae
              Muraenidae
              Nemichthyidae
              Nettastomatidae
              Ophichthidae
              Serrivomeridae
              Synaphobranchidae
              Protanguillidae
            Saccopharyngiformes
            Clupeiformes
            Osmeriformes
            Salmoniformes
            Stomiiformes
            Ateleopodiformes
            Aulopiformes
            Myctophiformes
            Lampriformes
            Polymixiiformes
            Gadiformes
            Ophidiiformes
            Batrachoidiformes
            Lophiiformes
            Gobiesociformes
            Atheriniformes
            Cyprinodontiformes
            Beloniformes
            Stephanoberyciformes
            Beryciformes
            Cetomimiformes
            Gasterosteiformes
            Syngnathiformes
            Scorpaeniformes
            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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