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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
                Pseudocyclopidae
                Pseudocyclopiidae
                Pseudodiaptomidae
                Ridgewayiidae
                Ryocalanidae
                Scolecitrichidae
                  Amallothrix
                  Archescolecithrix
                  Heteramalla
                  Landrumius
                  Lophothrix
                  Mixtocalanus
                  Racovitzanus
                  Scaphocalanus
                  Scolecithricella
                  Scolecithrix
                    Scolecithrix bradyi
                    Scolecithrix danae
                    Scolecithrix fowleri
                    Scolecithrix laminata
                    Scolecithrix longipes
                    Scolecithrix tenuiserrata
                    Scolecithrix valens
                    Scolecithrix nicobarica
                    Scolecithrix minor
                    Scolecithrix abyssalis
                    Scolecithrix aculeata
                    Scolecithrix acutus
                    Scolecithrix aequalis
                    Scolecithrix ancorarum
                    Scolecithrix angusta
                    Scolecithrix atlanticus
                    Scolecithrix auropecten
                    Scolecithrix birshteini
                        Scolecithrix birshteini major
                        Scolecithrix birshteini minor
                    Scolecithrix brevicornis
                    Scolecithrix chelifer
                    Scolecithrix chelipes
                    Scolecithrix cristata
                    Scolecithrix ctenopus
                    Scolecithrix curta
                    Scolecithrix dentata
                    Scolecithrix dubia
                    Scolecithrix echinata
                    Scolecithrix elephas
                    Scolecithrix emarginata
                    Scolecithrix falcifer
                    Scolecithrix glacialis
                    Scolecithrix globiceps
                    Scolecithrix gracilipes
                    Scolecithrix incisa
                    Scolecithrix ingolfi
                    Scolecithrix inornata
                    Scolecithrix latipes
                    Scolecithrix longifurca
                    Scolecithrix longirostris
                    Scolecithrix magnus
                    Scolecithrix marginata
                    Scolecithrix medius
                    Scolecithrix mollis
                    Scolecithrix obscura
                    Scolecithrix ovata
                    Scolecithrix pacifica
                    Scolecithrix persecans
                    Scolecithrix polaris
                    Scolecithrix porrecta
                    Scolecithrix profunda
                    Scolecithrix pygmaea
                    Scolecithrix romeri
                    Scolecithrix securifrons
                    Scolecithrix similis
                    Scolecithrix subdentata
                    Scolecithrix tolli
                    Scolecithrix valida
                    Scolecithrix vittata
                    Scolecithrix vorax
                    Scolecithrix borealis
                    Scolecithrix cuneifrons
                    Scolecithrix frontalis
                    Scolecithrix gracilis
                    Scolecithrix grata
                    Scolecithrix hibernica
                    Scolecithrix humilifrons
                    Scolecithrix koehleri
                    Scolecithrix longicornis
                    Scolecithrix magna
                    Scolecithrix major
                    Scolecithrix neptuni
                    Scolecithrix robusta
                    Scolecithrix scotti
                    Scolecithrix tenuipes
                    Scolecithrix tumida
                    Scolecithrix lobata
                  Scopalatum
                  Scottocalanus
                  Pseudophaenna
                  Brodskius
                  Byrathis
                  Cenognatha
                  Omorius
                  Paraxantharus
                  Plesioscolecithrix
                  Pseudoamallothrix
                  Scolecitrichopsis
                  Xantharus
                  Falsilandrumius
                  Grievella
                  Macandrewella
                  Bertalda
                  Bradfordiella
                  Parascaphocalanus
                  Puchinia
                  Scolecocalanus
                  Undinothrix
                  Diaiscolecithrix
                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