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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
          Lepidopleurina
            Leptochitonidae
              Lepidopleurus
              Leptochiton
                  Leptochiton africanus
                  Leptochiton algesirensis
                  Leptochiton alveolus
                  Leptochiton arcticus
                  Leptochiton asellus
                  Leptochiton bedullii
                  Leptochiton cancellatus
                  Leptochiton cimicoides
                  Leptochiton compostellanum
                  Leptochiton gascognensis
                  Leptochiton geronensis
                  Leptochiton leloupi
                  Leptochiton odhneri
                  Leptochiton pseudogloriosus
                  Leptochiton rarinotus
                  Leptochiton sarsi
                  Leptochiton scabridus
                  Leptochiton tenuis
                  Leptochiton thalattius
                  Leptochiton xanthus
                  Leptochiton belknapi
                  Leptochiton intermedius
                  Leptochiton albus
                  Leptochiton boettgeri
                  Leptochiton troncosoi
                  Leptochiton pepezamorai
                  Leptochiton rugatus
                  Leptochiton assimilis
                  Leptochiton (Leptochiton)
                  Leptochiton aequispinus
                  Leptochiton alascensis
                  Leptochiton albemarlensis
                  Leptochiton americanus
                  Leptochiton amsterdamensis
                  Leptochiton ater
                  Leptochiton badius
                  Leptochiton batialis
                  Leptochiton bednalli
                  Leptochiton benthedi
                  Leptochiton binghami
                  Leptochiton boucheti
                  Leptochiton cancelloides
                  Leptochiton chariessa
                  Leptochiton collusor
                  Leptochiton columnarius
                  Leptochiton darioi
                  Leptochiton deecresswellae
                  Leptochiton deforgesi
                  Leptochiton denhartogi
                  Leptochiton dispersus
                  Leptochiton fairchildi
                  Leptochiton finlayi
                  Leptochiton foresti
                  Leptochiton fuliginatus
                  Leptochiton gloriosus
                  Leptochiton habei
                  Leptochiton hakodatensis
                  Leptochiton hirasei
                  Leptochiton hiriensis
                  Leptochiton incongruus
                  Leptochiton inquinatus
                  Leptochiton japonicus
                  Leptochiton juvenis
                  Leptochiton kaasi
                  Leptochiton kerguelensis
                  Leptochiton kurnilatus
                  Leptochiton latidens
                  Leptochiton liratellus
                  Leptochiton liratus
                  Leptochiton lukini
                  Leptochiton matthewsianus
                  Leptochiton medinae
                  Leptochiton meiringae
                  Leptochiton micropustulosus
                  Leptochiton nexus
                  Leptochiton nierstraszi
                  Leptochiton norfolcensis
                  Leptochiton okamurai
                  Leptochiton otagoensis
                  Leptochiton pergranatus
                  Leptochiton permodestus
                  Leptochiton perscitus
                  Leptochiton rarinota
                  Leptochiton rissoi
                  Leptochiton saitoi
                  Leptochiton seishinmaruae
                  Leptochiton sperandus
                  Leptochiton subantarcticus
                  Leptochiton surugensis
                  Leptochiton sykesi
                  Leptochiton tenuidontus
                  Leptochiton thandari
                  Leptochiton torishimensis
                  Leptochiton vanbellei
                  Leptochiton vaubani
                  Leptochiton vietnamensis
                  Leptochiton vitjazae
                  Leptochiton curvatus
                  Leptochiton belgicae
                  Leptochiton cessaci
                  Leptochiton sererorum
                  Leptochiton algesirensis
                  Leptochiton longispinus
                  Leptochiton laurae
                  Leptochiton bergenhayni
                  Leptochiton muelleri
              Parachiton
              Lepidopleura
              Oldroydia
              Terenochiton
            Hanleyidae
            Ferreiraellidae
            Nierstraszellidae
            Protochitonidae
        Chitonida
    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
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