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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
            Podoplea
              Cyclopoida
              Harpacticoida
                Adenopleurellidae
                Aegisthidae
                Ambunguipedidae
                Ameiridae
                Ancorabolidae
                Arenopontiidae
                Argestidae
                Balaenophilidae
                Canthocamptidae
                Canuellidae
                Cerviniidae
                Cletodidae
                  Miroslavia
                  Echinocletodes
                  Acrenhydrosoma
                  Cletodes
                  Enhydrosoma
                      Enhydrosoma caeni
                      Enhydrosoma curticauda
                      Enhydrosoma curvirostre
                      Enhydrosoma gariene
                      Enhydrosoma hopkinsi
                      Enhydrosoma longicauda
                      Enhydrosoma longifurcatum
                      Enhydrosoma micrurum
                      Enhydrosoma migoti
                      Enhydrosoma pontica
                      Enhydrosoma propinquum
                      Enhydrosoma sarsi
                      Enhydrosoma sordidum
                      Enhydrosoma wellsi
                      Enhydrosoma buchholtzi
                      Enhydrosoma vicinum
                      Enhydrosoma littorale
                      Enhydrosoma barnishi
                      Enhydrosoma baruchi
                      Enhydrosoma bifurcarostratum
                      Enhydrosoma birsteini
                      Enhydrosoma breviarticulatum
                      Enhydrosoma cananeiae
                      Enhydrosoma franklini
                      Enhydrosoma gariensis
                      Enhydrosoma gerlachi
                      Enhydrosoma gracile
                      Enhydrosoma guaratubae
                      Enhydrosoma herrerai
                      Enhydrosoma illgi
                      Enhydrosoma ivetteae
                      Enhydrosoma kuehnemanni
                      Enhydrosoma lacunae
                      Enhydrosoma longicaudata
                      Enhydrosoma longum
                      Enhydrosoma mangroviae
                      Enhydrosoma minimum
                      Enhydrosoma minutum
                      Enhydrosoma nicobarica
                      Enhydrosoma pectinatum
                      Enhydrosoma pericoense
                      Enhydrosoma radhakrishnai
                      Enhydrosoma setiensis
                      Enhydrosoma staufferi
                      Enhydrosoma tunisiensis
                      Enhydrosoma uniarticulatum
                      Enhydrosoma vervoorti
                      Enhydrosoma woodini
                      Enhydrosoma perplexa
                      Enhydrosoma latipes
                      Enhydrosoma curvatum
                      Enhydrosoma intermedia
                      Enhydrosoma stylicaudatum
                      Enhydrosoma rosae
                      Enhydrosoma parapropinquum
                      Enhydrosoma casoae
                      Enhydrosoma solitarium
                      Enhydrosoma brevipodum
                      Enhydrosoma variabile
                  Enhydrosomella
                  Limnocletodes
                  Nannopodella
                  Paracrenhydrosoma
                  Strongylacron
                  Stylicletodes
                  Monocletodes
                  Australonannopus
                  Barbaracletodes
                  Scintis
                  Intercletodes
                  Kollerua
                  Schizacron
                  Cletodina
                  Dyacrenhydrosoma
                  Lilljeborgia
                  Neoacrenhydrosoma
                  Pyrocletodes
                  Sinamphiascus
                  Sphingothrix
                  Spinapecruris
                  Thieliella
                  Triathrix
                  Barbaracletodes
                Cletopsyllidae
                Clytemnestridae
                Cristacoxidae
                Cylindropsyllidae
                Danielsseniidae
                Darcythompsoniidae
                Diosaccidae
                Ectinosomatidae
                Euterpinidae
                Harpacticidae
                Huntemanniidae
                Laophontidae
                Laophontopsidae
                Latiremidae
                Leptastacidae
                Leptopontiidae
                Longipediidae
                Louriniidae
                Metidae
                Miraciidae
                Neobradyidae
                Normanellidae
                Novocriniidae
                Orthopsyllidae
                Paramesochridae
                Parastenheliidae
                Parastenocarididae
                Peltidiidae
                Phyllognathopodidae
                Porcellidiidae
                Psammopsyllidae
                Rhizothricidae
                Rotundiclipeidae
                Superornatiremidae
                Tachidiidae
                Tegastidae
                Tetragonicepsidae
                Thalestridae
                Thompsonulidae
                Tisbidae
                Zosimeidae
                Paranannopidae
                Ectinosomidae
                Pseudopeltidiidae
                Pteropsyllidae
                Rhynchothalestridae
                Pseudotachidiidae
                Idyanthidae
                Dactylopusiidae
                Ismardiidae
                Metahuntemanniidae
                Heteropsyllidae
                Parameiropsidae
                Nannopodidae
                Idyaeidae
              Poecilostomatoida
              Siphonostomatoida
              Monstrilloida
              Misophrioida
              Mormonilloida
          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
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
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