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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
                  Pseudodiaptomus
                    Pseudodiaptomus coronatus
                    Pseudodiaptomus aurivillii
                    Pseudodiaptomus salinus
                    Pseudodiaptomus speciosus
                    Pseudodiaptomus curvilobatus
                    Pseudodiaptomus acutus
                    Pseudodiaptomus andamanensis
                    Pseudodiaptomus annandalei
                    Pseudodiaptomus ardjuna
                    Pseudodiaptomus australiensis
                    Pseudodiaptomus batillipes
                    Pseudodiaptomus baylyi
                    Pseudodiaptomus binghami
                    Pseudodiaptomus bispinosus
                    Pseudodiaptomus bowmani
                    Pseudodiaptomus brehmi
                    Pseudodiaptomus bulbiferus
                    Pseudodiaptomus bulbosus
                    Pseudodiaptomus burckhardti
                    Pseudodiaptomus caritus
                    Pseudodiaptomus clevei
                    Pseudodiaptomus cokeri
                    Pseudodiaptomus colefaxi
                    Pseudodiaptomus compactus
                    Pseudodiaptomus cornutus
                    Pseudodiaptomus cristobalensis
                    Pseudodiaptomus culebrensis
                    Pseudodiaptomus dauglishi
                    Pseudodiaptomus euryhalinus
                    Pseudodiaptomus forbesi
                    Pseudodiaptomus galapagensis
                    Pseudodiaptomus galleti
                    Pseudodiaptomus gracilis
                    Pseudodiaptomus griggae
                    Pseudodiaptomus hessei
                    Pseudodiaptomus heterothrix
                    Pseudodiaptomus hickmani
                    Pseudodiaptomus hypersalinus
                    Pseudodiaptomus incisus
                    Pseudodiaptomus inflatus
                    Pseudodiaptomus inflexus
                    Pseudodiaptomus ishigakiensis
                    Pseudodiaptomus jonesi
                    Pseudodiaptomus lobipes
                    Pseudodiaptomus longispinosus
                    Pseudodiaptomus malayalus
                    Pseudodiaptomus marshi
                    Pseudodiaptomus masoni
                    Pseudodiaptomus mertoni
                    Pseudodiaptomus mixtus
                    Pseudodiaptomus nankauriensis
                    Pseudodiaptomus nihonkaiensis
                    Pseudodiaptomus occidentalus
                    Pseudodiaptomus ornatus
                    Pseudodiaptomus pacificus
                    Pseudodiaptomus panamensis
                    Pseudodiaptomus pankajus
                    Pseudodiaptomus pauliani
                    Pseudodiaptomus pelagicus
                    Pseudodiaptomus philippinensis
                    Pseudodiaptomus poplesia
                    Pseudodiaptomus poppei
                    Pseudodiaptomus richardi
                        Pseudodiaptomus richardi inaequalis
                        Pseudodiaptomus richardi emancipans
                    Pseudodiaptomus serricaudatus
                    Pseudodiaptomus sewelli
                    Pseudodiaptomus smithi
                    Pseudodiaptomus spatulatus
                    Pseudodiaptomus stuhlmanni
                    Pseudodiaptomus tollingerae
                    Pseudodiaptomus trihamatus
                    Pseudodiaptomus trispinosus
                    Pseudodiaptomus wrighti
                    Pseudodiaptomus diadelus
                    Pseudodiaptomus marinus
                    Pseudodiaptomus arabicus
                    Pseudodiaptomus inopinus
                    Pseudodiaptomus sulawesiensis
                    Pseudodiaptomus terazakii
                    Pseudodiaptomus americanus
                    Pseudodiaptomus beieri
                    Pseudodiaptomus charteri
                    Pseudodiaptomus dubius
                    Pseudodiaptomus japonicus
                    Pseudodiaptomus nostradamus
                    Pseudodiaptomus nudus
                    Pseudodiaptomus penicillus
                    Pseudodiaptomus nansei
                  Archidiaptomus
                  Heterocalanus
                  Mazellina
                  Parapoppella
                  Schmackeria
                  Siatella
                  Weismannella
                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