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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
                Cletopsyllidae
                Clytemnestridae
                Cristacoxidae
                Cylindropsyllidae
                Danielsseniidae
                Darcythompsoniidae
                Diosaccidae
                Ectinosomatidae
                Euterpinidae
                Harpacticidae
                  Harpacticus
                      Harpacticus alevtinae
                      Harpacticus chelifer
                      Harpacticus compsonyx
                      Harpacticus depressus
                      Harpacticus flexulosus
                      Harpacticus flexus
                      Harpacticus giesbrechti
                      Harpacticus gracilis
                      Harpacticus littoralis
                      Harpacticus longiantennata
                      Harpacticus macrodactylus
                      Harpacticus nicaeensis
                      Harpacticus obscurus
                      Harpacticus ponticus
                      Harpacticus septentrionalis
                      Harpacticus tenellus
                      Harpacticus uniremis
                      Harpacticus virescens
                      Harpacticus acutifrons
                      Harpacticus superflexus
                      Harpacticus dentatus
                      Harpacticus furcatus
                      Harpacticus furcifer
                      Harpacticus pulvinatus
                      Harpacticus robustus
                      Harpacticus aegialobates
                      Harpacticus bairdi
                      Harpacticus boehleri
                      Harpacticus clausi
                      Harpacticus compressus
                      Harpacticus confusus
                      Harpacticus cristatus
                      Harpacticus dezhnevi
                      Harpacticus dubitabilis
                      Harpacticus falklandi
                      Harpacticus fucicolus
                      Harpacticus glaber
                      Harpacticus gurneyi
                      Harpacticus islandicus
                      Harpacticus meridionalis
                      Harpacticus nipponicus
                      Harpacticus piriei
                      Harpacticus poppei
                      Harpacticus pulex
                      Harpacticus purpureus
                      Harpacticus simplex
                      Harpacticus xenus
                      Harpacticus arcticus
                      Harpacticus brevicornis
                      Harpacticus chauseica
                      Harpacticus concinnus
                      Harpacticus crassicornis
                      Harpacticus curticornis
                      Harpacticus elongatus
                      Harpacticus fortificationis
                      Harpacticus fulvus
                      Harpacticus helgolandicus
                      Harpacticus koenigi
                      Harpacticus linearis
                      Harpacticus nobilis
                      Harpacticus pacificus
                      Harpacticus parachelifer
                      Harpacticus roseus
                      Harpacticus sacer
                      Harpacticus spinosus
                      Harpacticus spinulosus
                      Harpacticus staphilinus
                      Harpacticus trisetosus
                      Harpacticus croni
                      Harpacticus gibba
                      Harpacticus aquilinus
                      Harpacticus pallaresae
                      Harpacticus sparticus
                  Perissocope
                  Tigriopus
                  Zaus
                  Harpacticellinae
                  Zausodiinae
                  Paratigriopus
                  Zausodes
                  Zausopsis
                  Discoharpacticus
                  Archizausodes
                  Arpacticus
                  Campella
                  Camptonyx
                  Handiella
                  Mucropedia
                  Neozausodes
                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
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