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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
              Poecilostomatoida
                Anomoclausiidae
                Antheacheridae
                Anthessiidae
                Bomolochidae
                Catiniidae
                Chondracanthidae
                Clausidiidae
                Clausiidae
                Corycaeidae
                Entobiidae
                Ergasilidae
                Eunicicolidae
                Gastrodelphyidae
                Herpyllobiidae
                Intramolgidae
                Lamippidae
                Lichomolgidae
                Lubbockiidae
                Macrochironidae
                Mesoglicolidae
                Myicolidae
                Mytilicolidae
                Nereicolidae
                Octopicolidae
                Oncaeidae
                Pharodidae
                Philichthyidae
                Phyllodicolidae
                Poecilostomatoida incertae sedis
                Pseudanthessiidae
                Rhynchomolgidae
                Sabelliphilidae
                Saccopsidae
                Sapphirinidae
                Serpulidicolidae
                Spiophanicolidae
                Synapticolidae
                Synaptiphilidae
                Taeniacanthidae
                  Phagus
                  Taeniacanthus
                    Taeniacanthus balistae
                    Taeniacanthus laqueus
                    Taeniacanthus lucipetus
                    Taeniacanthus onosi
                    Taeniacanthus wilsoni
                    Taeniacanthus zeugopteri
                    Taeniacanthus pectinatus
                    Taeniacanthus acanthocepolae
                    Taeniacanthus aluteri
                    Taeniacanthus anguillaris
                    Taeniacanthus canthigasteri
                    Taeniacanthus carchariae
                    Taeniacanthus coelus
                    Taeniacanthus comparatus
                    Taeniacanthus dentatus
                    Taeniacanthus digitatus
                    Taeniacanthus flagellans
                    Taeniacanthus fugu
                    Taeniacanthus glomerosus
                    Taeniacanthus indicus
                    Taeniacanthus kitamakura
                    Taeniacanthus lagocephali
                    Taeniacanthus longicaudus
                    Taeniacanthus longicervis
                    Taeniacanthus longichela
                    Taeniacanthus miles
                    Taeniacanthus moa
                    Taeniacanthus monacanthi
                    Taeniacanthus narcini
                    Taeniacanthus neopercis
                    Taeniacanthus nudicauda
                    Taeniacanthus occidentalis
                    Taeniacanthus ostracionis
                    Taeniacanthus papulosus
                    Taeniacanthus petilus
                    Taeniacanthus pollicaris
                    Taeniacanthus pteroisi
                    Taeniacanthus sabafugu
                    Taeniacanthus sauridae
                    Taeniacanthus sebastichthydis
                    Taeniacanthus sebastisci
                    Taeniacanthus similis
                    Taeniacanthus upenei
                        Taeniacanthus upenei upeneoides
                    Taeniacanthus williamsi
                    Taeniacanthus yamagutii
                    Taeniacanthus platycephali
                    Taeniacanthus pseudorhombi
                    Taeniacanthus rotundiceps
                    Taeniacanthus tetradonis
                    Taeniacanthus albidus
                    Taeniacanthus cynoglossi
                    Taeniacanthus hapalogenyos
                    Taeniacanthus spiniferus
                    Taeniacanthus inimici
                    Taeniacanthus larsonae
                    Taeniacanthus thackerae
                    Taeniacanthus kiemae
                    Taeniacanthus brayae
                    Taeniacanthus mcgroutheri
                  Tucca
                  Anchistrotos
                  Biacanthus
                  Caudacanthus
                  Cirracanthus
                  Clavisodalis
                  Echinirus
                  Echinosocius
                  Haemaphilus
                  Haematophilus
                  Irodes
                  Metataeniacanthus
                  Nudisodalis
                  Parataeniacanthus
                  Pseudotaeniacanthus
                  Scolecicara
                  Taeniacanthodes
                  Taeniastrotos
                  Umazuracola
                Ventriculinidae
                Xenocoelomidae
                Tuccidae
                Corallovexiidae
                Echiurophilidae
                Euniciolidae
                Paralubbockiidae
                Tegobomolochidae
                Umazuracolidae
                Xenocoelomatidae
                Lernaeosoleidae
                Melinnacheridae
                Pionodesmotidae
                Bradophilidae
                Abrsiidae
                Makrostrotidae
              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
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