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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
            Podoplea
              Cyclopoida
              Harpacticoida
                Adenopleurellidae
                Aegisthidae
                Ambunguipedidae
                Ameiridae
                Ancorabolidae
                Arenopontiidae
                Argestidae
                Balaenophilidae
                Canthocamptidae
                Canuellidae
                Cerviniidae
                Cletodidae
                Cletopsyllidae
                Clytemnestridae
                Cristacoxidae
                Cylindropsyllidae
                Danielsseniidae
                Darcythompsoniidae
                Diosaccidae
                Ectinosomatidae
                Euterpinidae
                Harpacticidae
                Huntemanniidae
                Laophontidae
                Laophontopsidae
                Latiremidae
                Leptastacidae
                Leptopontiidae
                Longipediidae
                Louriniidae
                Metidae
                Miraciidae
                Neobradyidae
                Normanellidae
                Novocriniidae
                Orthopsyllidae
                Paramesochridae
                  Apodopsyllus
                  Diarthrodella
                  Kliopsyllus
                  Leptopsyllus
                  Meiopsyllus
                  Paramesochra
                    Paramesochra acutata
                    Paramesochra borealis
                    Paramesochra brevifurca
                    Paramesochra dubia
                    Paramesochra helgolandica
                        Paramesochra helgolandica helgolandica
                        Paramesochra helgolandica galapagoensis
                    Paramesochra mielkei
                    Paramesochra pterocaudata
                    Paramesochra similis
                    Paramesochra constricta
                    Paramesochra arctica
                    Paramesochra denticulata
                    Paramesochra enalius
                    Paramesochra gigas
                    Paramesochra holsatica
                    Paramesochra kunzi
                    Paramesochra laurentica
                    Paramesochra longicaudata
                    Paramesochra longisetosa
                    Paramesochra major
                    Paramesochra ornata
                    Paramesochra orotavae
                    Paramesochra perharidiensis
                    Paramesochra pontica
                    Paramesochra psammobionta
                    Paramesochra psammophila
                    Paramesochra pygmaea
                    Paramesochra unaspina
                    Paramesochra wilsoni
                    Paramesochra arenicola
                    Paramesochra capensis
                    Paramesochra coelebs
                    Paramesochra herdmani
                    Paramesochra intermedia
                    Paramesochra minor
                    Paramesochra minuta
                    Paramesochra pseudogracilis
                    Paramesochra robertsoni
                    Paramesochra australis
                    Paramesochra marisalbi
                    Paramesochra taeana
                  Remanea
                  Scottopsyllus
                  Wellsopsyllus
                  Intermedopsyllus
                  Emertonia
                  Kleiopsyllus
                  Krishnapsyllus
                  Paraleptosyllus
                  Singularia
                  Apodopsyllus
                  Kliopsyllus
                  Scottopsyllus
                Parastenheliidae
                Parastenocarididae
                Peltidiidae
                Phyllognathopodidae
                Porcellidiidae
                Psammopsyllidae
                Rhizothricidae
                Rotundiclipeidae
                Superornatiremidae
                Tachidiidae
                Tegastidae
                Tetragonicepsidae
                Thalestridae
                Thompsonulidae
                Tisbidae
                Zosimeidae
                Paranannopidae
                Ectinosomidae
                Pseudopeltidiidae
                Pteropsyllidae
                Rhynchothalestridae
                Pseudotachidiidae
                Idyanthidae
                Dactylopusiidae
                Ismardiidae
                Metahuntemanniidae
                Heteropsyllidae
                Parameiropsidae
                Nannopodidae
                Idyaeidae
              Poecilostomatoida
              Siphonostomatoida
              Monstrilloida
              Misophrioida
              Mormonilloida
          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