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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
                  Disseta
                  Hemirhabus
                  Heterorhabdus
                    Heterorhabdus abyssalis
                    Heterorhabdus clausi
                    Heterorhabdus compactus
                    Heterorhabdus norvegicus
                    Heterorhabdus papilliger
                    Heterorhabdus robustus
                    Heterorhabdus spinifer
                    Heterorhabdus spinifrons
                    Heterorhabdus tenuis
                    Heterorhabdus vipera
                    Heterorhabdus tanneri
                    Heterorhabdus austrinus
                    Heterorhabdus pustulifer
                    Heterorhabdus americanus
                    Heterorhabdus ankylocolus
                    Heterorhabdus atlanticus
                    Heterorhabdus brevicornis
                    Heterorhabdus caribbeanensis
                    Heterorhabdus cohibilis
                    Heterorhabdus confusibilis
                    Heterorhabdus egregius
                    Heterorhabdus fistulosus
                        Heterorhabdus fistulosus tuberculata
                    Heterorhabdus guineanensis
                    Heterorhabdus habrosomus
                    Heterorhabdus heterolobus
                    Heterorhabdus insukae
                    Heterorhabdus lobatus
                    Heterorhabdus longisegmentus
                    Heterorhabdus oikoumenikis
                    Heterorhabdus pacificus
                    Heterorhabdus paraspinosus
                    Heterorhabdus profundus
                    Heterorhabdus prolatus
                    Heterorhabdus prolixus
                    Heterorhabdus quadrilobus
                    Heterorhabdus spinosus
                    Heterorhabdus subspinifrons
                    Heterorhabdus tropicus
                    Heterorhabdus tuberculus
                    Heterorhabdus brevicaudatus
                    Heterorhabdus compactoides
                    Heterorhabdus farrani
                    Heterorhabdus grandis
                    Heterorhabdus latus
                    Heterorhabdus longispinus
                    Heterorhabdus medianus
                    Heterorhabdus nigrotinctus
                    Heterorhabdus proximus
                    Heterorhabdus robustoides
                    Heterorhabdus angulata
                    Heterorhabdus clausii
                    Heterorhabdus grimaldii
                    Heterorhabdus longicornis
                    Heterorhabdus major
                    Heterorhabdus pilosus
                    Heterorhabdus vicinus
                    Heterorhabdus viperus
                    Heterorhabdus zetesios
                    Heterorhabdus medius
                    Heterorhabdus dubius
                    Heterorhabdus devius
                  Heterostylites
                  Mesorhabdus
                  Microdisseta
                  Neorhabdus
                  Hemirhabdus
                  Paraheterorhabdus
                  Alloiorhabdus
                  Heterochaeta
                  Macrorhabdus
                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
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