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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
                Lucicutiidae
                Mecynoceridae
                Megacalanidae
                Mesaiokeratidae
                Metridinidae
                Paracalanidae
                Parapontellidae
                Phaennidae
                Phyllopodidae
                Pontellidae
                  Anomalocera
                  Calanopia
                  Labidocera
                  Pontella
                    Pontella atlantica
                    Pontella lobiancoi
                    Pontella mediterranea
                    Pontella securifer
                    Pontella spinipes
                    Pontella meadii
                    Pontella pennata
                    Pontella pulvinata
                    Pontella princeps
                    Pontella agassizii
                    Pontella alata
                    Pontella andersoni
                    Pontella asymmetrica
                    Pontella barbata
                    Pontella bifurcata
                    Pontella brunescens
                    Pontella cerami
                    Pontella chierchiae
                    Pontella danae
                    Pontella denticauda
                    Pontella diagonalis
                    Pontella elephas
                    Pontella forcipata
                    Pontella forficula
                    Pontella gaboonensis
                    Pontella gracilis
                    Pontella hanloni
                    Pontella indica
                    Pontella inermis
                    Pontella investigatoris
                    Pontella karachiensis
                    Pontella kieferi
                    Pontella kroyeri
                    Pontella laevidentata
                    Pontella latifurca
                    Pontella marplatensis
                    Pontella mimocerami
                    Pontella natalis
                    Pontella novaezealandiae
                    Pontella perspicax
                    Pontella plumata
                    Pontella polydactyla
                    Pontella regalis
                    Pontella resnautica
                    Pontella rostraticauda
                    Pontella sewelli
                    Pontella sinica
                    Pontella spinipedata
                    Pontella surrecta
                    Pontella tenuiremis
                    Pontella tridactyla
                    Pontella patagoniensis
                    Pontella acutifrons
                    Pontella acuta
                    Pontella agilis
                    Pontella argentea
                    Pontella bairdii
                    Pontella brachiata
                    Pontella brachyura
                    Pontella brevicornis
                    Pontella contracta
                    Pontella crispata
                    Pontella cristata
                    Pontella curta
                    Pontella curticornis
                    Pontella darwinii
                    Pontella detonsa
                    Pontella detruncata
                    Pontella elegans
                    Pontella elliptica
                    Pontella emerita
                    Pontella eugeniae
                    Pontella exigua
                    Pontella fera
                    Pontella frivola
                    Pontella hebes
                    Pontella helgolandica
                    Pontella longipedata
                    Pontella magna
                    Pontella media
                    Pontella minuta
                    Pontella protensa
                    Pontella raynaudii
                    Pontella rubescens
                    Pontella savignyi
                    Pontella setosa
                    Pontella simplex
                    Pontella speciosa
                        Pontella speciosa formosa
                    Pontella spinicauda
                    Pontella strenua
                    Pontella suchumica
                    Pontella turgida
                    Pontella valida
                    Pontella whiteleggei
                    Pontella labuanensis
                    Pontella kleini
                    Pontella bonei
                    Pontella vervoorti
                    Pontella edwardsii
                    Pontella nerii
                    Pontella pattersonii
                    Pontella wollastoni
                  Pontellina
                  Pontellopsis
                  Epilabidocera
                  Paralabidocera
                  Ivellopsis
                  Aphelura
                  Eupontella
                  Hemipontella
                  Irenaeus
                  Isocope
                  Iva
                  Ivella
                  Ivellina
                  Monachops
                  Monops
                  Pontia
                  Pseudomonops
                  Pseudopontella
                  Pseudopontia
                  Calanops
                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