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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
                  Aetideopsis
                  Aetideus
                  Batheuchaeta
                  Bradyetes
                  Bradyidius
                  Chiridiella
                  Chiridius
                  Chirundina
                  Comantenna
                  Euchirella
                    Euchirella amoena
                    Euchirella bella
                        Euchirella bella indica
                    Euchirella bitumida
                    Euchirella curticauda
                    Euchirella maxima
                    Euchirella messinensis
                    Euchirella pulchra
                    Euchirella rostrata
                    Euchirella truncata
                    Euchirella brevis
                    Euchirella galeata
                    Euchirella intermedia
                    Euchirella pseudopulchra
                    Euchirella formosa
                    Euchirella venusta
                    Euchirella rostromagna
                    Euchirella latirostris
                    Euchirella similis
                    Euchirella grandicornis
                    Euchirella lisettae
                    Euchirella orientalis
                    Euchirella paulinae
                    Euchirella pseudotruncata
                    Euchirella speciosa
                    Euchirella splendens
                    Euchirella unispina
                    Euchirella acuta
                    Euchirella areata
                    Euchirella carinata
                    Euchirella dentata
                    Euchirella dubia
                    Euchirella elongata
                    Euchirella gracilis
                    Euchirella granulata
                    Euchirella hirsuta
                    Euchirella indica
                    Euchirella plumosa
                    Euchirella propria
                    Euchirella simplex
                    Euchirella spinosa
                    Euchirella tanseii
                    Euchirella trigrada
                    Euchirella tumida
                    Euchirella wolfendeni
                    Euchirella hessei
                    Euchirella acadiana
                    Euchirella atlantica
                  Gaetanus
                  Gaidius
                  Jaschnovia
                  Paracomantenna
                  Pseudeuchaeta
                  Pseudochirella
                  Pseudotharybis
                  Undeuchaeta
                  Valdiviella
                  Euaetideus
                  Bryaxis
                  Pseudaetideus
                  Chirundinella
                  Parabradyidius
                  Azygokeras
                  Crassantenna
                  Gaidiopsis
                  Lutamator
                  Mesocomantenna
                  Autanepsius
                  Bradyanus
                  Bryaxona
                  Derjuginia
                  Faroella
                  Mesogaidius
                  Mesundeuchaeta
                  Paivella
                  Paraetideus
                  Plagiopus
                  Pseudogaetanus
                  Pseudoothrix
                  Pterochirella
                  Senecella
                  Snelliaetideus
                  Sursamucro
                  Undinopsis
                  Wilsonidius
                  Prolutamator
                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
                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