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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
                  Copilia
                  Sapphirina
                    Sapphirina angusta
                    Sapphirina auronitens
                        Sapphirina auronitens sinuicauda
                    Sapphirina bicuspidata
                    Sapphirina darwini
                    Sapphirina gastrica
                    Sapphirina gemma
                    Sapphirina granulosa
                    Sapphirina intestinata
                    Sapphirina iris
                    Sapphirina lactens
                    Sapphirina maculosa
                    Sapphirina metallina
                    Sapphirina nigromaculata
                    Sapphirina opalina
                    Sapphirina ovatolanceolata
                    Sapphirina pyrosomatis
                    Sapphirina sali
                    Sapphirina scarlata
                    Sapphirina sinuicauda
                    Sapphirina stellata
                    Sapphirina vorax
                    Sapphirina aureofurca
                    Sapphirina lomae
                    Sapphirina longifurca
                    Sapphirina pseudolactens
                    Sapphirina reticulata
                    Sapphirina serrata
                    Sapphirina bella
                    Sapphirina clausii
                    Sapphirina coruscans
                    Sapphirina cylindrica
                    Sapphirina danae
                    Sapphirina darwinii
                    Sapphirina detonsa
                    Sapphirina edwardsii
                    Sapphirina elegans
                    Sapphirina fulgens
                    Sapphirina gegenbauri
                    Sapphirina gibba
                    Sapphirina inaequalis
                    Sapphirina indicator
                    Sapphirina indigotica
                    Sapphirina nitens
                    Sapphirina obesa
                    Sapphirina obtusa
                    Sapphirina opaca
                    Sapphirina orientalis
                    Sapphirina ovalis
                    Sapphirina ovata
                    Sapphirina pachygaster
                    Sapphirina parva
                    Sapphirina salpae
                    Sapphirina scalaris
                    Sapphirina splendens
                    Sapphirina stylifera
                    Sapphirina tenella
                    Sapphirina thomsoni
                    Sapphirina uncinata
                    Sapphirina versicolor
                    Sapphirina ovatolanceolata-gemma
                    Sapphirina opalina-darwini
                  Vettoria
                  Corina
                  Corissa
                  Edwardsia
                  Hyalophyllum
                  Lanowia
                  Pyromma
                  Sapphiridina
                  Terebellicola
                Serpulidicolidae
                Spiophanicolidae
                Synapticolidae
                Synaptiphilidae
                Taeniacanthidae
                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
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera