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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
              Siphonostomatoida
                Artotrogidae
                Asterocheridae
                Brychiopontiidae
                Caligidae
                Calverocheridae
                Cancerillidae
                Cecropidae
                Dichelesthiidae
                Dinopontiidae
                Dirivultidae
                Entomolepidae
                Eudactylinidae
                Euryphoridae
                Hatschekiidae
                Kroyeriidae
                Lernaeopodidae
                Lernanthropidae
                Megapontiidae
                Micropontiidae
                Nanaspididae
                Nicothoidae
                  Aspidoecia
                  Choniorhiza
                  Choniosphaera
                  Choniostoma
                  Diexanthema
                  Hadrothoe
                  Homoeoscelis
                  Mysidion
                  Nicorhiza
                  Nicothoe
                  Rhizorhina
                  Sphaeronella
                    Sphaeronella aeginae
                    Sphaeronella affinis
                    Sphaeronella amphilochi
                    Sphaeronella atyli
                    Sphaeronella callisomae
                    Sphaeronella cluthae
                    Sphaeronella danica
                    Sphaeronella decorata
                    Sphaeronella devosae
                    Sphaeronella diademae
                    Sphaeronella dispar
                    Sphaeronella dulichiae
                    Sphaeronella ecaudata
                    Sphaeronella frontalis
                    Sphaeronella giardii
                    Sphaeronella gitanopsidis
                    Sphaeronella insignis
                    Sphaeronella intermedia
                    Sphaeronella irregularis
                    Sphaeronella leptocheiri
                    Sphaeronella leuckartii
                    Sphaeronella longipes
                    Sphaeronella marginata
                    Sphaeronella melphidippae
                    Sphaeronella messinensis
                    Sphaeronella metopae
                    Sphaeronella microcephala
                    Sphaeronella minuta
                        Sphaeronella minuta valida
                    Sphaeronella modesta
                    Sphaeronella monothrix
                    Sphaeronella munnae
                    Sphaeronella nannonisci
                    Sphaeronella norvegica
                    Sphaeronella paradoxa
                    Sphaeronella pleurogonii
                    Sphaeronella pygmaea
                    Sphaeronella rotundata
                    Sphaeronella valida
                    Sphaeronella vararensis
                    Sphaeronella vestita
                    Sphaeronella abyssi
                    Sphaeronella acanthozonis
                    Sphaeronella anarthronis
                    Sphaeronella antarctica
                    Sphaeronella antillensis
                    Sphaeronella aorae
                    Sphaeronella argissae
                    Sphaeronella australis
                    Sphaeronella bouvieri
                    Sphaeronella bradfordae
                    Sphaeronella calliopii
                    Sphaeronella capensis
                    Sphaeronella caprellae
                    Sphaeronella chinensis
                    Sphaeronella curtipes
                    Sphaeronella doloriae
                    Sphaeronella elegantula
                    Sphaeronella grayi
                    Sphaeronella holboelli
                    Sphaeronella homasteropeae
                    Sphaeronella kornickeri
                    Sphaeronella metavargulae
                    Sphaeronella munnopsidis
                    Sphaeronella philomedesi
                    Sphaeronella photidis
                    Sphaeronella pikei
                    Sphaeronella pilosa
                    Sphaeronella rugosidoloriae
                    Sphaeronella sarsiellae
                    Sphaeronella scleroconchae
                    Sphaeronella sedentaria
                    Sphaeronella serolis
                    Sphaeronella siphonostrae
                    Sphaeronella skogsbergiellae
                    Sphaeronella squamosa
                    Sphaeronella dikrothrix
                    Sphaeronella bonnieri
                    Sphaeronella diadema
                    Sphaeronella leuckarti
                    Sphaeronella parasteropeae
                    Sphaeronella spinosa
                    Sphaeronella synasteropeae
                    Sphaeronella hebe
                    Sphaeronella gottoi
                    Sphaeronella keppelensis
                  Stenothocheres
                  Arhizorhina
                  Cephalorhiza
                  Choniomyzon
                  Hansenulus
                  Heptalobus
                  Lecithomyzon
                  Neomysidion
                  Paranicothoe
                  Pseudonicothoe
                  Salenskya
                  Sphaeronelloides
                  Sphaeronellopsis
                  Vunicothoe
                Pandaridae
                Pennellidae
                Pontoeciellidae
                Pseudocycnidae
                Rataniidae
                Sphyriidae
                Sponginticolidae
                Spongiocnizontidae
                Trebiidae
                Ascomyzontidae
                Calvocheridae
                Dissonidae
                Naobranchiidae
                Pennillidae
                Pontopsyllidae
                Amaterasidae
                Choniostomatidae
                Pseudohatschekiidae
              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
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