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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
    Polyplacophora
      Neoloricata
        Lepidopleurida
        Chitonida
          Ischnochitonina
          Acanthochitonina
          Chitonina
            Chitonoidea
              Chitonidae
              Ischnochitonidae
              Callochitonidae
              Callistoplacidae
              Chaetopleuridae
                Chaetopleura
                    Chaetopleura (Pallochiton)
                    Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura)
                      Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura) angulata
                      Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura) apiculata
                      Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura) papilio
                      Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura) pertusa
                      Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura) angolensis
                      Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura) asperior
                      Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura) asperrima
                      Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura) benaventei
                      Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura) benguelensis
                      Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura) biarmata
                      Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura) brucei
                      Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura) debruini
                      Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura) fernandensis
                      Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura) gambiensis
                      Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura) hanselmani
                      Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura) hennahi
                      Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura) isabellei
                      Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura) lurida
                      Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura) peruviana
                      Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura) pomarium
                      Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura) pustulata
                      Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura) roddai
                      Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura) shyana
                      Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura) sowerbyana
                      Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura) staphylophera
                      Chaetopleura (Chaetopleura) unilineata
                    Chaetopleura angolensis
                    Chaetopleura benaventei
                    Chaetopleura biarmata
                    Chaetopleura brucei
                    Chaetopleura fernandensis
                    Chaetopleura pomarium
                    Chaetopleura roddae
                    Chaetopleura shyana
                    Chaetopleura staphylophera
                    Chaetopleura unilineata
                    Chaetopleura gemma
                    Chaetopleura chelazziana
                    Chaetopleura sowerbiana
                    Chaetopleura spinulosa
                    Chaetopleura euryplax
                    Chaetopleura mixta
                Chaetopleurinae
                Dinoplax
                Pallochiton
              Loricidae
              Acanthopleuridae
            Schizochitonoidea
    Gastropoda
    Scaphopoda
    Bivalvia
    Monoplacophora
    Solenogastres
    Cephalopoda
    Placophora
    Aculifera
    Conchifera
    Pelecypoda
    Caudofoveata
    Lamellibranchiata
    Conchifera
  Porifera
  Platyhelminthes
  Nematoda
  Annelida
  Nemertina
  Arthropoda
  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
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