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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
              Poecilostomatoida
                Anomoclausiidae
                Antheacheridae
                Anthessiidae
                Bomolochidae
                Catiniidae
                Chondracanthidae
                Clausidiidae
                Clausiidae
                Corycaeidae
                Entobiidae
                Ergasilidae
                Eunicicolidae
                Gastrodelphyidae
                Herpyllobiidae
                Intramolgidae
                Lamippidae
                Lichomolgidae
                Lubbockiidae
                Macrochironidae
                Mesoglicolidae
                Myicolidae
                Mytilicolidae
                Nereicolidae
                Octopicolidae
                Oncaeidae
                Pharodidae
                Philichthyidae
                Phyllodicolidae
                Poecilostomatoida incertae sedis
                Pseudanthessiidae
                Rhynchomolgidae
                Sabelliphilidae
                Saccopsidae
                Sapphirinidae
                Serpulidicolidae
                Spiophanicolidae
                Synapticolidae
                Synaptiphilidae
                Taeniacanthidae
                  Phagus
                  Taeniacanthus
                      Taeniacanthus balistae
                      Taeniacanthus laqueus
                      Taeniacanthus lucipetus
                      Taeniacanthus onosi
                      Taeniacanthus wilsoni
                      Taeniacanthus zeugopteri
                      Taeniacanthus pectinatus
                      Taeniacanthus acanthocepolae
                      Taeniacanthus aluteri
                      Taeniacanthus anguillaris
                      Taeniacanthus canthigasteri
                      Taeniacanthus carchariae
                      Taeniacanthus coelus
                      Taeniacanthus comparatus
                      Taeniacanthus dentatus
                      Taeniacanthus digitatus
                      Taeniacanthus flagellans
                      Taeniacanthus fugu
                      Taeniacanthus glomerosus
                      Taeniacanthus indicus
                      Taeniacanthus kitamakura
                      Taeniacanthus lagocephali
                      Taeniacanthus longicaudus
                      Taeniacanthus longicervis
                      Taeniacanthus longichela
                      Taeniacanthus miles
                      Taeniacanthus moa
                      Taeniacanthus monacanthi
                      Taeniacanthus narcini
                      Taeniacanthus neopercis
                      Taeniacanthus nudicauda
                      Taeniacanthus occidentalis
                      Taeniacanthus ostracionis
                      Taeniacanthus papulosus
                      Taeniacanthus petilus
                      Taeniacanthus pollicaris
                      Taeniacanthus pteroisi
                      Taeniacanthus sabafugu
                      Taeniacanthus sauridae
                      Taeniacanthus sebastichthydis
                      Taeniacanthus sebastisci
                      Taeniacanthus similis
                      Taeniacanthus upenei
                      Taeniacanthus williamsi
                      Taeniacanthus yamagutii
                      Taeniacanthus platycephali
                      Taeniacanthus pseudorhombi
                      Taeniacanthus rotundiceps
                      Taeniacanthus tetradonis
                      Taeniacanthus albidus
                      Taeniacanthus cynoglossi
                      Taeniacanthus hapalogenyos
                      Taeniacanthus spiniferus
                      Taeniacanthus inimici
                      Taeniacanthus larsonae
                      Taeniacanthus thackerae
                      Taeniacanthus kiemae
                      Taeniacanthus brayae
                      Taeniacanthus mcgroutheri
                  Tucca
                  Anchistrotos
                  Biacanthus
                  Caudacanthus
                  Cirracanthus
                  Clavisodalis
                  Echinirus
                  Echinosocius
                  Haemaphilus
                  Haematophilus
                  Irodes
                  Metataeniacanthus
                  Nudisodalis
                  Parataeniacanthus
                  Pseudotaeniacanthus
                  Scolecicara
                  Taeniacanthodes
                  Taeniastrotos
                  Umazuracola
                Ventriculinidae
                Xenocoelomidae
                Tuccidae
                Corallovexiidae
                Echiurophilidae
                Euniciolidae
                Paralubbockiidae
                Tegobomolochidae
                Umazuracolidae
                Xenocoelomatidae
                Lernaeosoleidae
                Melinnacheridae
                Pionodesmotidae
                Bradophilidae
                Abrsiidae
                Makrostrotidae
              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
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Archaea
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