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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
    Crustacea
      Remipedia
      Branchiopoda
      Maxillopoda
        Mystacocarida
        Copepoda
          Progymnoplea
          Neocopepoda
            Gymnoplea
              Calanoida
                Acartiidae
                Aetideidae
                Arietellidae
                Augaptilidae
                Bathypontiidae
                Calanidae
                Candaciidae
                Centropagidae
                  Centropages
                      Centropages aucklandicus
                      Centropages brachiatus
                      Centropages bradyi
                      Centropages calaninus
                      Centropages caribbeanensis
                      Centropages chierchiae
                      Centropages furcatus
                      Centropages hamatus
                      Centropages kroyeri
                      Centropages ponticus
                      Centropages typicus
                      Centropages violaceus
                      Centropages abdominalis
                      Centropages orsinii
                      Centropages elongatus
                      Centropages gracilis
                      Centropages acutus
                      Centropages aegypticus
                      Centropages alcocki
                      Centropages australiensis
                      Centropages brevifurcus
                      Centropages dorsispinatus
                      Centropages elegans
                      Centropages halinus
                      Centropages karachiensis
                      Centropages longicornis
                      Centropages natalensis
                      Centropages sinensis
                      Centropages tenuiremis
                      Centropages trispinosus
                      Centropages velificatus
                      Centropages pacificus
                      Centropages arabicus
                      Centropages brevicaudatus
                      Centropages discaudatus
                      Centropages grimaldii
                      Centropages lenuculari
                      Centropages mcmurrichi
                      Centropages notoceras
                      Centropages pectinatus
                      Centropages chilensis
                      Centropages spinosus
                      Centropages yamadai
                      Centropages maigo
                      Centropages uedai
                  Isias
                  Limnocalanus
                  Catopia
                  Deguernea
                  Gigantella
                  Gippslandia
                  Gladioferens
                  Guernea
                  Guernella
                  Ichthyophorba
                  Manaia
                  Neoboeckella
                  Osphranticum
                  Parabroteas
                  Parathalassius
                  Potomoichetor
                  Sinocalanus
                  Dusartius
                  Dussartopages
                Clausocalanidae
                Diaixidae
                Discoidae
                Eucalanidae
                Euchaetidae
                Heterorhabdidae
                Lucicutiidae
                Mecynoceridae
                Megacalanidae
                Mesaiokeratidae
                Metridinidae
                Paracalanidae
                Parapontellidae
                Phaennidae
                Phyllopodidae
                Pontellidae
                Pseudocyclopidae
                Pseudocyclopiidae
                Pseudodiaptomidae
                Ridgewayiidae
                Ryocalanidae
                Scolecitrichidae
                Spinocalanidae
                Stephidae
                Temoridae
                Tharybidae
                Pseudocalanidae
                Calocalanidae
                Nullosetigeridae
                Rhincalanidae
                Kyphocalanidae
                Rostrocalanidae
            Podoplea
          Thaumatopsylloida
        Branchiura
        Tantulocarida
        Thecostraca
        Pentastomida
      Malacostraca
      Ostracoda
      Pentastomata
    Chelicerata
    Myriapoda
    Hexapoda
  Ctenophora
  Cnidaria
  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
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