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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
                  Calanoides
                  Calanus
                    Calanus euxinus
                    Calanus finmarchicus
                    Calanus glacialis
                    Calanus helgolandicus
                    Calanus hyperboreus
                    Calanus tenuicornis
                    Calanus parvus
                    Calanus marshallae
                    Calanus pacificus
                    Calanus minor
                    Calanus vulgaris
                    Calanus darwinii
                    Calanus propinquus
                    Calanus simillimus
                    Calanus australis
                        Calanus australis atlanticus
                        Calanus australis pacificus
                    Calanus agulhensis
                    Calanus chilensis
                    Calanus jashnovi
                    Calanus sinicus
                    Calanus aculeatus
                    Calanus acutus
                    Calanus americanus
                    Calanus caroli
                    Calanus clausii
                    Calanus fonsecai
                    Calanus lighti
                    Calanus macrocarinatus
                    Calanus mastigophorus
                    Calanus minutus
                    Calanus orientalis
                    Calanus pauper
                    Calanus plumchrus
                    Calanus ponticus
                    Calanus princeps
                    Calanus robustior
                    Calanus synupuensis
                    Calanus tonsus
                    Calanus valgus
                    Calanus cristatus
                    Calanus gracilis
                    Calanus carinatus
                    Calanus affinis
                    Calanus amaenus
                    Calanus anglicus
                    Calanus appressus
                    Calanus arcticus
                    Calanus arcuicornis
                    Calanus arietis
                    Calanus attenuatus
                    Calanus bellus
                    Calanus borealis
                    Calanus brevicornis
                    Calanus caudatus
                    Calanus communis
                    Calanus comptus
                    Calanus cornutus
                    Calanus crassus
                    Calanus curtus
                    Calanus danai
                    Calanus elegans
                    Calanus elongatus
                    Calanus erythrochilus
                    Calanus euchaeta
                    Calanus flavipes
                    Calanus furcicaudus
                    Calanus inauritus
                    Calanus inconspicuus
                    Calanus latus
                    Calanus levis
                    Calanus longiremis
                    Calanus longus
                    Calanus magellanicus
                    Calanus magnus
                    Calanus medius
                    Calanus mirabilis
                    Calanus mundus
                    Calanus nataliensis
                    Calanus nudus
                    Calanus patagoniensis
                    Calanus pavo
                    Calanus pellucidus
                    Calanus penicillatus
                    Calanus perspicax
                    Calanus plumosus
                    Calanus plumulosus
                    Calanus pygmaeus
                    Calanus quinqueannulatus
                    Calanus ramosus
                    Calanus recticornis
                    Calanus rostrifrons
                    Calanus rotundatus
                    Calanus sanguineus
                    Calanus scutellatus
                    Calanus septentrionalis
                    Calanus setuligerus
                    Calanus simplicicaudus
                    Calanus spitzbergensis
                    Calanus stylifer
                    Calanus turbinatus
                    Calanus torticornis
                    Calanus dorsalis
                    Calanus (Carinocalanus)
                  Mesocalanus
                  Nannocalanus
                  Neocalanus
                  Undinula
                  Canthocalanus
                  Cosmocalanus
                  Cetochilus
                  Daphinia
                  Diarthropus
                  Metranura
                  Paratharybis
                  Undina
                Candaciidae
                Centropagidae
                Clausocalanidae
                Diaixidae
                Discoidae
                Eucalanidae
                Euchaetidae
                Heterorhabdidae
                Lucicutiidae
                Mecynoceridae
                Megacalanidae
                Mesaiokeratidae
                Metridinidae
                Paracalanidae
                Parapontellidae
                Phaennidae
                Phyllopodidae
                Pontellidae
                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