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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
    Calcarea
    Hexactinellida
    Homoscleromorpha
    Porifera incertae sedis
    Demospongiae
      Ceractinomorpha
      Tetractinomorpha
      Dendroceratida
      Dictyoceratida
      Halichondrida
      Halisarcida
      Haplosclerida
      Poecilosclerida
      Verongida
        Aplysinidae
          Verongia
          Aplysina
            Aplysina aerophoba
            Aplysina carnosa
            Aplysina cavernicola
            Aplysina corneostellata
            Aplysina massa
            Aplysina noevus
            Aplysina tuberosa
            Aplysina applicata
            Aplysina archeri
            Aplysina aurea
            Aplysina bathyphila
            Aplysina cacos
            Aplysina caissara
            Aplysina capensis
            Aplysina cauliformis
            Aplysina cellulosa
            Aplysina compacta
            Aplysina compressa
            Aplysina euplectella
            Aplysina fistularis
            Aplysina fulva
            Aplysina gerardogreeni
            Aplysina higginsii
            Aplysina hirsuta
                Aplysina hirsuta var. fulvoides
                Aplysina hirsuta var. fistularoides
            Aplysina holda
            Aplysina inflata
            Aplysina insularis
            Aplysina lacunosa
            Aplysina lendenfeldi
            Aplysina maeandrina
            Aplysina minima
            Aplysina minuta
            Aplysina nuciformis
            Aplysina ocracea
            Aplysina pergamentacea
            Aplysina picea
            Aplysina primitiva
            Aplysina procumbens
            Aplysina ramosa
            Aplysina reticulata
            Aplysina sebae
            Aplysina spengelii
            Aplysina janusi
            Aplysina cruor
            Aplysina anomala
            Aplysina flagelliformis
            Aplysina fragilis
            Aplysina rugosa
            Aplysina longissima
            Aplysina spiculifera
            Aplysina caespitosa
            Aplysina massa
            Aplysina grisea
            Aplysina gigantea
            Aplysina praetexta
            Aplysina mollis
            Aplysina praetensa
            Aplysina azteca
            Aplysina fusca
            Aplysina regularis
            Aplysina aurea
            Aplysina laevis
            Aplysina purpurea
            Aplysina herdmani
            Aplysina aggregata
            Aplysina cauliformis
            Aplysina chalinoides
            Aplysina incrustans
            Aplysina chiriquiensis
            Aplysina ecuatorensis
            Aplysina zetlandica
            Aplysina alcicornis
            Aplysina cristagallus
            Aplysina lactuca
            Aplysina lingua
            Aplysina muricyana
            Aplysina orthoreticulata
            Aplysina pseudolacunosa
            Aplysina solangeae
            Aplysina ianthelliformis
            Aplysina tenuissima
            Aplysina elegans
            Aplysina pedicellata
          Aiolochroia
          Verongula
          Dendrospongia
          Luffaria
        Aplysinellidae
        Ianthellidae
        Pseudoceratinidae
        Verongiidae
      Astrophorida
      Chondrosida
      Hadromerida
      'Lithistida'
      Spirophorida
      Petrosida
      Nepheliospongida
      Choristida
      Axinellida
      Agelasida
      Demospongiae incertae sedis
      Verticillitida
      Keratosa
      Myxospongiae
      Gummineae
      Verongimorpha
      Tetractinellida
      Democlavia
    Sclerospongiae
    Hyalospongiae
    Calcispongiae
  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
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Chromista
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