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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
        Spinulosacea
          Spinulosida
            Echinasteridae
              Cribella
              Cribrella
              Echinaster
                Echinaster (Echinaster)
                Echinaster eschrichti
                Echinaster oculatus
                Echinaster sarsi
                Echinaster scrobiculatus
                Echinaster (Othilia)
                    Echinaster (Othilia) brasiliensis
                    Echinaster (Othilia) echinophorus
                    Echinaster (Othilia) graminicola
                    Echinaster (Othilia) guyanensis
                    Echinaster (Othilia) paucispinus
                    Echinaster (Othilia) sentus
                    Echinaster (Othilia) serpentarius
                    Echinaster (Othilia) spinulosus
                    Echinaster (Othilia) antonioensis
                    Echinaster (Othilia) aculeata
                    Echinaster (Othilia) tenuispinus
                    Echinaster (Othilia) brasiliensis
                    Echinaster (Othilia) brasiliensis
                    Echinaster (Othilia) crassispina
                    Echinaster (Othilia) densispinulosus
                    Echinaster (Othilia) doriae
                    Echinaster (Othilia) lepidus
                    Echinaster (Othilia) modestus
                    Echinaster (Othilia) nudus
                    Echinaster (Othilia) robustus
                    Echinaster (Othilia) serpentarius
                    Echinaster (Othilia) spinosus
                    Echinaster (Othilia) spinosus
                    Echinaster (Othilia) spinulosus
                    Echinaster (Othilia) tribulus
                Echinaster sanguinolentus
                Echinaster purpureus
                Echinaster ornatus
                Echinaster callosus
                Echinaster sladeni
                Echinaster smithi
                Echinaster sepositus
                Echinaster colemani
                Echinaster farquhari
                Echinaster luzonicus
                Echinaster cylindricus
                Echinaster glomeratus
                Echinaster modestus
                Echinaster panamensis
                Echinaster parvispinus
                Echinaster reticulatus
                Echinaster stereosomus
                Echinaster superbus
                Echinaster varicolor
                Echinaster vestitus
                Echinaster vestitus
                Echinaster solaris
                Echinaster acanthodes
                Echinaster arcystatus
                Echinaster crassus
                Echinaster cribella
                Echinaster decanus
                Echinaster deplanatus
                Echinaster diffidens
                Echinaster echinulatus
                Echinaster ellisi
                Echinaster eridanella
                Echinaster eridanella
                Echinaster eschrichti
                Echinaster fallax
                Echinaster fallax
                Echinaster hirsuta
                Echinaster heteractis
                Echinaster madseni
                Echinaster gracilis
                Echinaster clouei
                Echinaster modestus
                Echinaster multipapillatus
                Echinaster pterasteroides
                Echinaster purpureus
                Echinaster rigidus
                Echinaster sagenus
                Echinaster sanguinolentus
                Echinaster sepositus
                Echinaster smilax
                Echinaster spinulifer
                Echinaster spinulifer
              Henricia
              Magdalenaster
              Rhopia
              Cyllaster
              Spinohenricia
              Thyraster
              Verrillaster
              Linckia
              Rhopiella
              Odontohenricia
              Metrodira
              Plectaster
              Dictyaster
              Henricides
              Valvasterinae
              Acanthasterinae
              Mithrodinae
              Mithrodinae
              Scaphaster
              Echinaster
              Aleutihenricia
            Metrodiridae
            Mithrodiae
            Mithrodidae
      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