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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
                Pseudocyclopidae
                Pseudocyclopiidae
                Pseudodiaptomidae
                Ridgewayiidae
                Ryocalanidae
                Scolecitrichidae
                  Amallothrix
                  Archescolecithrix
                  Heteramalla
                  Landrumius
                  Lophothrix
                  Mixtocalanus
                  Racovitzanus
                  Scaphocalanus
                  Scolecithricella
                      Scolecithricella abyssalis
                      Scolecithricella canariensis
                      Scolecithricella curticauda
                      Scolecithricella dentata
                      Scolecithricella lobata
                      Scolecithricella lobophora
                      Scolecithricella minor
                      Scolecithricella obtusifrons
                      Scolecithricella orientalis
                      Scolecithricella ovata
                      Scolecithricella profunda
                      Scolecithricella propinqua
                      Scolecithricella spinata
                      Scolecithricella unispinosa
                      Scolecithricella vittata
                      Scolecithricella dentipes
                      Scolecithricella laminata
                      Scolecithricella auropecten
                      Scolecithricella maritima
                      Scolecithricella timida
                      Scolecithricella grata
                      Scolecithricella tenuiserrata
                      Scolecithricella arcuata
                      Scolecithricella aspinosa
                      Scolecithricella avia
                      Scolecithricella beata
                      Scolecithricella cenotelis
                      Scolecithricella denticulata
                      Scolecithricella globulosa
                      Scolecithricella gracilis
                      Scolecithricella hadrosoma
                      Scolecithricella lamellifer
                      Scolecithricella lanceolata
                      Scolecithricella longispinosa
                      Scolecithricella marginata
                      Scolecithricella marquesae
                      Scolecithricella modica
                      Scolecithricella neptuni
                      Scolecithricella obscura
                      Scolecithricella pacifica
                      Scolecithricella parafalcifer
                      Scolecithricella paramarginata
                      Scolecithricella pearsoni
                      Scolecithricella pseudoarcuata
                      Scolecithricella pseudoculata
                      Scolecithricella pseudopropinqua
                      Scolecithricella schizosoma
                      Scolecithricella spinacantha
                      Scolecithricella tropica
                      Scolecithricella tydemani
                      Scolecithricella vervoorti
                      Scolecithricella vespertina
                      Scolecithricella glacialis
                      Scolecithricella subdentata
                      Scolecithricella bradyi
                      Scolecithricella ctenopus
                      Scolecithricella altera
                      Scolecithricella dubia
                      Scolecithricella emarginata
                      Scolecithricella falcifer
                      Scolecithricella farrani
                      Scolecithricella ingolfii
                      Scolecithricella longicornis
                      Scolecithricella longifurca
                      Scolecithricella longipes
                      Scolecithricella nicobarica
                      Scolecithricella paravalida
                      Scolecithricella polaris
                      Scolecithricella porrecta
                      Scolecithricella robusta
                      Scolecithricella sarsi
                      Scolecithricella spinipedata
                      Scolecithricella subvittata
                      Scolecithricella tenuipes
                      Scolecithricella valens
                      Scolecithricella valida
                      Scolecithricella fowleri
                  Scolecithrix
                  Scopalatum
                  Scottocalanus
                  Pseudophaenna
                  Brodskius
                  Byrathis
                  Cenognatha
                  Omorius
                  Paraxantharus
                  Plesioscolecithrix
                  Pseudoamallothrix
                  Scolecitrichopsis
                  Xantharus
                  Falsilandrumius
                  Grievella
                  Macandrewella
                  Bertalda
                  Bradfordiella
                  Parascaphocalanus
                  Puchinia
                  Scolecocalanus
                  Undinothrix
                  Diaiscolecithrix
                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
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