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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
                  Euchaeta
                  Pareuchaeta
                  Paraeuchaeta
                    Paraeuchaeta altibulla
                    Paraeuchaeta barbata
                    Paraeuchaeta bisinuata
                    Paraeuchaeta bradyi
                    Paraeuchaeta glacialis
                    Paraeuchaeta gracilis
                    Paraeuchaeta hansenii
                    Paraeuchaeta hebes
                        Paraeuchaeta hebes valida
                    Paraeuchaeta incisa
                    Paraeuchaeta kurilensis
                    Paraeuchaeta norvegica
                    Paraeuchaeta parabbreviata
                    Paraeuchaeta polaris
                    Paraeuchaeta pseudotonsa
                    Paraeuchaeta rubicunda
                    Paraeuchaeta sarsi
                    Paraeuchaeta scotti
                    Paraeuchaeta tumidula
                    Paraeuchaeta elongata
                    Paraeuchaeta pubera
                    Paraeuchaeta tenuis
                    Paraeuchaeta abbreviata
                    Paraeuchaeta aequatorialis
                    Paraeuchaeta antarctica
                    Paraeuchaeta austrina
                    Paraeuchaeta biloba
                    Paraeuchaeta dactylifera
                    Paraeuchaeta eltaninae
                    Paraeuchaeta erebi
                    Paraeuchaeta exigua
                    Paraeuchaeta parvula
                    Paraeuchaeta rasa
                    Paraeuchaeta regalis
                    Paraeuchaeta similis
                    Paraeuchaeta tycodesma
                    Paraeuchaeta calva
                    Paraeuchaeta comosa
                    Paraeuchaeta confusa
                    Paraeuchaeta malayensis
                    Paraeuchaeta spinifera
                    Paraeuchaeta spinosa
                    Paraeuchaeta abyssaloides
                    Paraeuchaeta bulbirostris
                    Paraeuchaeta dentata
                    Paraeuchaeta gracilicauda
                    Paraeuchaeta hastata
                    Paraeuchaeta implicata
                    Paraeuchaeta perplexa
                    Paraeuchaeta rotundirostris
                    Paraeuchaeta sibogae
                    Paraeuchaeta tridentata
                    Paraeuchaeta tuberculata
                    Paraeuchaeta weberi
                    Paraeuchaeta crassa
                    Paraeuchaeta eminens
                    Paraeuchaeta investigatoris
                    Paraeuchaeta laudabilis
                    Paraeuchaeta longisetosa
                    Paraeuchaeta modesta
                    Paraeuchaeta oculata
                    Paraeuchaeta orientalis
                    Paraeuchaeta plicata
                    Paraeuchaeta plumifera
                    Paraeuchaeta polita
                    Paraeuchaeta prima
                    Paraeuchaeta prudens
                    Paraeuchaeta pseudotumidula
                    Paraeuchaeta rubra
                    Paraeuchaeta simplex
                    Paraeuchaeta simulantis
                    Paraeuchaeta striata
                    Paraeuchaeta subtilirostris
                    Paraeuchaeta withi
                    Paraeuchaeta pavlovskii
                    Paraeuchaeta abrikosovi
                    Paraeuchaeta abyssalis
                    Paraeuchaeta affinis
                    Paraeuchaeta alaminae
                    Paraeuchaeta anfracta
                    Paraeuchaeta biconvexa
                    Paraeuchaeta birostrata
                    Paraeuchaeta brevirostris
                    Paraeuchaeta californica
                    Paraeuchaeta dubia
                    Paraeuchaeta concinna
                    Paraeuchaeta consimilis
                    Paraeuchaeta copleyae
                    Paraeuchaeta daitomarui
                    Paraeuchaeta diegensis
                    Paraeuchaeta euryrhina
                    Paraeuchaeta farrani
                    Paraeuchaeta flava
                    Paraeuchaeta gladiofera
                    Paraeuchaeta grandiremis
                    Paraeuchaeta guttata
                    Paraeuchaeta japonica
                    Paraeuchaeta longicornis
                    Paraeuchaeta longissima
                    Paraeuchaeta magniloba
                    Paraeuchaeta media
                    Paraeuchaeta megaloba
                    Paraeuchaeta mexicana
                    Paraeuchaeta papilliger
                    Paraeuchaeta paraacuta
                    Paraeuchaeta paraconcinna
                    Paraeuchaeta paraprudens
                    Paraeuchaeta plana
                    Paraeuchaeta plaxiphora
                    Paraeuchaeta propinqua
                    Paraeuchaeta robusta
                    Paraeuchaeta russelli
                    Paraeuchaeta scaphula
                    Paraeuchaeta scopaeorhina
                    Paraeuchaeta sesquipedalis
                    Paraeuchaeta solida
                    Paraeuchaeta tonsa
                    Paraeuchaeta triloba
                    Paraeuchaeta vervoorti
                    Paraeuchaeta wilsoni
                    Paraeuchaeta wrighti
                    Paraeuchaeta vorax
                    Paraeuchaeta acuta
                    Paraeuchaeta arabica
                    Paraeuchaeta diadema
                    Paraeuchaeta haswelli
                    Paraeuchaeta oceana
                    Paraeuchaeta ovata
                    Paraeuchaeta philippii
                    Paraeuchaeta pubescens
                    Paraeuchaeta sutherlandii
                    Paraeuchaeta trunculosa
                  Paraechaeta
                  Euchaetopsis
                  Euchirus
                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