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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
                  Scolecithrix
                      Scolecithrix bradyi
                      Scolecithrix danae
                      Scolecithrix fowleri
                      Scolecithrix laminata
                      Scolecithrix longipes
                      Scolecithrix tenuiserrata
                      Scolecithrix valens
                      Scolecithrix nicobarica
                      Scolecithrix minor
                      Scolecithrix abyssalis
                      Scolecithrix aculeata
                      Scolecithrix acutus
                      Scolecithrix aequalis
                      Scolecithrix ancorarum
                      Scolecithrix angusta
                      Scolecithrix atlanticus
                      Scolecithrix auropecten
                      Scolecithrix birshteini
                      Scolecithrix brevicornis
                      Scolecithrix chelifer
                      Scolecithrix chelipes
                      Scolecithrix cristata
                      Scolecithrix ctenopus
                      Scolecithrix curta
                      Scolecithrix dentata
                      Scolecithrix dubia
                      Scolecithrix echinata
                      Scolecithrix elephas
                      Scolecithrix emarginata
                      Scolecithrix falcifer
                      Scolecithrix glacialis
                      Scolecithrix globiceps
                      Scolecithrix gracilipes
                      Scolecithrix incisa
                      Scolecithrix ingolfi
                      Scolecithrix inornata
                      Scolecithrix latipes
                      Scolecithrix longifurca
                      Scolecithrix longirostris
                      Scolecithrix magnus
                      Scolecithrix marginata
                      Scolecithrix medius
                      Scolecithrix mollis
                      Scolecithrix obscura
                      Scolecithrix ovata
                      Scolecithrix pacifica
                      Scolecithrix persecans
                      Scolecithrix polaris
                      Scolecithrix porrecta
                      Scolecithrix profunda
                      Scolecithrix pygmaea
                      Scolecithrix romeri
                      Scolecithrix securifrons
                      Scolecithrix similis
                      Scolecithrix subdentata
                      Scolecithrix tolli
                      Scolecithrix valida
                      Scolecithrix vittata
                      Scolecithrix vorax
                      Scolecithrix borealis
                      Scolecithrix cuneifrons
                      Scolecithrix frontalis
                      Scolecithrix gracilis
                      Scolecithrix grata
                      Scolecithrix hibernica
                      Scolecithrix humilifrons
                      Scolecithrix koehleri
                      Scolecithrix longicornis
                      Scolecithrix magna
                      Scolecithrix major
                      Scolecithrix neptuni
                      Scolecithrix robusta
                      Scolecithrix scotti
                      Scolecithrix tenuipes
                      Scolecithrix tumida
                      Scolecithrix lobata
                  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
Monera