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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
                Clausocalanidae
                Diaixidae
                Discoidae
                Eucalanidae
                Euchaetidae
                Heterorhabdidae
                Lucicutiidae
                Mecynoceridae
                Megacalanidae
                Mesaiokeratidae
                Metridinidae
                Paracalanidae
                Parapontellidae
                Phaennidae
                Phyllopodidae
                Pontellidae
                  Anomalocera
                  Calanopia
                  Labidocera
                  Pontella
                      Pontella atlantica
                      Pontella lobiancoi
                      Pontella mediterranea
                      Pontella securifer
                      Pontella spinipes
                      Pontella meadii
                      Pontella pennata
                      Pontella pulvinata
                      Pontella princeps
                      Pontella agassizii
                      Pontella alata
                      Pontella andersoni
                      Pontella asymmetrica
                      Pontella barbata
                      Pontella bifurcata
                      Pontella brunescens
                      Pontella cerami
                      Pontella chierchiae
                      Pontella danae
                      Pontella denticauda
                      Pontella diagonalis
                      Pontella elephas
                      Pontella forcipata
                      Pontella forficula
                      Pontella gaboonensis
                      Pontella gracilis
                      Pontella hanloni
                      Pontella indica
                      Pontella inermis
                      Pontella investigatoris
                      Pontella karachiensis
                      Pontella kieferi
                      Pontella kroyeri
                      Pontella laevidentata
                      Pontella latifurca
                      Pontella marplatensis
                      Pontella mimocerami
                      Pontella natalis
                      Pontella novaezealandiae
                      Pontella perspicax
                      Pontella plumata
                      Pontella polydactyla
                      Pontella regalis
                      Pontella resnautica
                      Pontella rostraticauda
                      Pontella sewelli
                      Pontella sinica
                      Pontella spinipedata
                      Pontella surrecta
                      Pontella tenuiremis
                      Pontella tridactyla
                      Pontella patagoniensis
                      Pontella acutifrons
                      Pontella acuta
                      Pontella agilis
                      Pontella argentea
                      Pontella bairdii
                      Pontella brachiata
                      Pontella brachyura
                      Pontella brevicornis
                      Pontella contracta
                      Pontella crispata
                      Pontella cristata
                      Pontella curta
                      Pontella curticornis
                      Pontella darwinii
                      Pontella detonsa
                      Pontella detruncata
                      Pontella elegans
                      Pontella elliptica
                      Pontella emerita
                      Pontella eugeniae
                      Pontella exigua
                      Pontella fera
                      Pontella frivola
                      Pontella hebes
                      Pontella helgolandica
                      Pontella longipedata
                      Pontella magna
                      Pontella media
                      Pontella minuta
                      Pontella protensa
                      Pontella raynaudii
                      Pontella rubescens
                      Pontella savignyi
                      Pontella setosa
                      Pontella simplex
                      Pontella speciosa
                      Pontella spinicauda
                      Pontella strenua
                      Pontella suchumica
                      Pontella turgida
                      Pontella valida
                      Pontella whiteleggei
                      Pontella labuanensis
                      Pontella kleini
                      Pontella bonei
                      Pontella vervoorti
                      Pontella edwardsii
                      Pontella nerii
                      Pontella pattersonii
                      Pontella wollastoni
                  Pontellina
                  Pontellopsis
                  Epilabidocera
                  Paralabidocera
                  Ivellopsis
                  Aphelura
                  Eupontella
                  Hemipontella
                  Irenaeus
                  Isocope
                  Iva
                  Ivella
                  Ivellina
                  Monachops
                  Monops
                  Pontia
                  Pseudomonops
                  Pseudopontella
                  Pseudopontia
                  Calanops
                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
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera