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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
  Ctenophora
  Cnidaria
  Sipuncula
  Echiura
  Pogonophora
  Entoprocta
  Tardigrada
  Phoronida
  Brachiopoda
  Echinodermata
    Crinozoa
    Asterozoa
      Asteroidea
        Velatida
        Platyasterida
        Concentricycloidea
        Euclasteroidea
        Forcipulatacea
        Valvatacea
          Notomyotida
          Paxillosida
            Astropectinidae
            Ctenodiscidae
            Luidiidae
              Astrella
              Luidia
                Luidia africana
                Luidia atlantidea
                Luidia ciliaris
                Luidia fragilissima
                Luidia sarsii
                Luidia clathrata
                Luidia alternata
                Luidia barbadensis
                Luidia heterozona
                Luidia ludwigi
                Luidia patriae
                Luidia sagamina
                Luidia sarsi
                Luidia senegalensis
                Luidia maculata
                Luidia hardwicki
                Luidia aspera
                Luidia avicularia
                Luidia mauritiensis
                Luidia savignyi
                Luidia prionota
                Luidia changi
                Luidia quinaria
                Luidia yesoensis
                Luidia moroisoana
                Luidia neozelanica
                Luidia amurensis
                Luidia aciculata
                Luidia armata
                Luidia asthenosoma
                Luidia australiae
                Luidia bellonae
                Luidia bernasconiae
                Luidia denudata
                Luidia elegans
                Luidia ferruginea
                Luidia foliolata
                Luidia gymnochora
                Luidia hexactis
                Luidia inarmata
                Luidia integra
                Luidia longispina
                Luidia lorioli
                Luidia magellanica
                Luidia magnifica
                Luidia columbia
                Luidia mortenseni
                Luidia numidica
                Luidia orientalis
                Luidia penangensis
                Luidia phragma
                Luidia porteri
                Luidia sibogae
                Luidia superba
                Luidia tessellata
                Luidia varia
                Luidia variegata
                Luidia latiradiata
                Luidia africana
                Luidia difficilis
                Luidia aspera
                Luidia aspera
                Luidia atlantidea
                Luidia barbadensis
                Luidia barimae
                Luidia bellonae
                    Luidia bellonae lorioli
                Luidia bispinosa
                Luidia brevispina
                Luidia californica
                Luidia chefooensis
                Luidia chinensis
                Luidia columbia
                Luidia debilis
                Luidia convexiuscula
                Luidia doellojuradoi
                Luidia forficifer
                Luidia granulosa
                Luidia hardwickii
                Luidia herdmani
                Luidia hystrix
                Luidia limbata
                Luidia maculata
                Luidia marcgravii
                Luidia marginata
                Luidia mascarena
                Luidia paucispina
                Luidia prionota
                Luidia quequenensis
                Luidia rosaurae
                Luidia sarsi
                Luidia savignyi
                Luidia savignyi
                Luidia savignyi
                Luidia scotti
                Luidia singapurensis
                Luidia (Luidia)
                Luidia (Platasterias)
                Luidia lawrencei
              Hemicnemis
              Petalaster
              Maculaster
              Alternaster
              Armaster
              Denudaster
              Integraster
              Penangaster
              Platasterias
              Senegaster
              Quinaster
            Porcellanasteridae
            Radiasteridae
            Goniopectinidae
            Pseudarchasteridae
            Plutonasteridae
            Mimasteridae
          Valvatida
        Spinulosacea
      Ophiuroidea
      Stelleroidea
    Echinozoa
  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