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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
    Turbellaria
    Monogenea
    Cestoda
      Eucestoda
        Caryophyllidea
        Cyclophyllidea
        Diphyllidea
        Lecanicephalidea
        Proteocephalidea
        Pseudophyllidea
        Spathebothriidea
        Tetrabothriidea
        Tetraphyllidea
          Chimaerocestidae
          Onchobothriidae
            Onchobothrium
            Platybothrium
            Acanthobothrium
              Acanthobothrium benedeni
              Acanthobothrium crassicolle
              Acanthobothrium dujardinii
              Acanthobothrium filicolle
                  Acanthobothrium filicolle benedeni
                  Acanthobothrium filicolle paulum
              Acanthobothrium floridensis
              Acanthobothrium musculosum
              Acanthobothrium ponticum
              Acanthobothrium quadripartitum
              Acanthobothrium rajaebatis
              Acanthobothrium tripartitum
              Acanthobothrium zschokkei
              Acanthobothrium coronatum
              Acanthobothrium adlardi
              Acanthobothrium angelae
              Acanthobothrium arlenae
              Acanthobothrium bartonae
              Acanthobothrium blairi
              Acanthobothrium brayi
              Acanthobothrium cannoni
              Acanthobothrium chisholmae
              Acanthobothrium clarkeae
              Acanthobothrium cribbi
              Acanthobothrium edmondsi
              Acanthobothrium gasseri
              Acanthobothrium gibsoni
              Acanthobothrium gloveri
              Acanthobothrium guptai
              Acanthobothrium jonesi
              Acanthobothrium lasti
              Acanthobothrium laurenbrownae
              Acanthobothrium martini
              Acanthobothrium mooreae
              Acanthobothrium ocallaghani
              Acanthobothrium odonoghuei
              Acanthobothrium pichelinae
              Acanthobothrium robertsoni
              Acanthobothrium rohdei
              Acanthobothrium stevensi
              Acanthobothrium thomasae
              Acanthobothrium walkeri
              Acanthobothrium chiloscylli
              Acanthobothrium foulki
              Acanthobothrium gnomus
              Acanthobothrium larsoni
              Acanthobothrium lepidum
              Acanthobothrium tetabuanense
              Acanthobothrium wedli
              Acanthobothrium brevissime
              Acanthobothrium lintoni
              Acanthobothrium paulum
              Acanthobothrium tortum
              Acanthobothrium aetiobatidis
              Acanthobothrium amazonensis
              Acanthobothrium americanum
              Acanthobothrium annapinkiensis
              Acanthobothrium atahualpai
              Acanthobothrium aurangabadensis
              Acanthobothrium australis
              Acanthobothrium bajaensis
              Acanthobothrium batailloni
              Acanthobothrium bengalense
              Acanthobothrium beveridgei
              Acanthobothrium bifurcatum
              Acanthobothrium brachyacanthum
              Acanthobothrium bullardi
              Acanthobothrium campbelli
              Acanthobothrium cartagenensis
              Acanthobothrium cestracii
              Acanthobothrium cestraciontis
              Acanthobothrium chengai
              Acanthobothrium chilensis
              Acanthobothrium cimari
              Acanthobothrium cleofanus
              Acanthobothrium colombianum
              Acanthobothrium confusum
              Acanthobothrium coquimbensis
              Acanthobothrium costarricense
              Acanthobothrium dasi
              Acanthobothrium dasybati
              Acanthobothrium dighaensis
              Acanthobothrium dollyae
              Acanthobothrium dysbiotos
              Acanthobothrium edwardsi
              Acanthobothrium electricolum
              Acanthobothrium franus
              Acanthobothrium giganticum
              Acanthobothrium goldsteini
              Acanthobothrium gracile
              Acanthobothrium grandiceps
              Acanthobothrium hanumantharaoi
              Acanthobothrium herdmani
              Acanthobothrium heterodonti
              Acanthobothrium himanturi
              Acanthobothrium hispidum
              Acanthobothrium holorhini
              Acanthobothrium icelandicum
              Acanthobothrium ijimai
              Acanthobothrium inbiorium
              Acanthobothrium incognita
              Acanthobothrium indiana
              Acanthobothrium indicum
              Acanthobothrium intermedium
              Acanthobothrium karachiense
              Acanthobothrium latum
              Acanthobothrium leuckaertii
              Acanthobothrium lilium
              Acanthobothrium lineatum
              Acanthobothrium longipedunculata
              Acanthobothrium lusarmientoi
              Acanthobothrium macracanthum
              Acanthobothrium macrocephalum
              Acanthobothrium maculatum
              Acanthobothrium magnum
              Acanthobothrium manteri
              Acanthobothrium marplatensis
              Acanthobothrium maryanskii
              Acanthobothrium marymichaelorum
              Acanthobothrium mathiasi
              Acanthobothrium micracantha
              Acanthobothrium microcephalum
              Acanthobothrium minus
              Acanthobothrium minusculus
              Acanthobothrium monksi
              Acanthobothrium mujibi
              Acanthobothrium myliomaculata
              Acanthobothrium nicoyaense
              Acanthobothrium obuncus
              Acanthobothrium oceanharvestae
              Acanthobothrium olseni
              Acanthobothrium palligerum
              Acanthobothrium parviuncinatum
              Acanthobothrium parvum
              Acanthobothrium pearsoni
              Acanthobothrium pintanensis
              Acanthobothrium popi
              Acanthobothrium psammobati
              Acanthobothrium puertecitense
              Acanthobothrium puntarenasense
              Acanthobothrium quinonesi
              Acanthobothrium rajivi
              Acanthobothrium regoi
              Acanthobothrium rhinobati
              Acanthobothrium robustum
              Acanthobothrium rodmani
              Acanthobothrium romanowi
              Acanthobothrium rovi
              Acanthobothrium rubrum
              Acanthobothrium santarosaliense
              Acanthobothrium semnovesiculum
              Acanthobothrium septentrionale
              Acanthobothrium soberoni
              Acanthobothrium southwelli
              Acanthobothrium tasajerasi
              Acanthobothrium terezae
              Acanthobothrium triacis
              Acanthobothrium tsingtaoensis
              Acanthobothrium uncinatum
              Acanthobothrium unilateralis
              Acanthobothrium urogymni
              Acanthobothrium urolophi
              Acanthobothrium urotrygoni
              Acanthobothrium vergasi
              Acanthobothrium verticillatum
              Acanthobothrium waltairensis
              Acanthobothrium woodsholei
              Acanthobothrium xiamenensis
              Acanthobothrium zapaterycum
              Acanthobothrium zimmeri
              Acanthobothrium zugeinensis
            Calliobothrium
          Oncobothriidae
          Phyllobothriidae
          Prosobothriidae
          Tetraphyllidea incertae sedis
        Trypanorhyncha
        Eucestoda incertae sedis
    Catenulida
    Trematoda
  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
Viruses
Monera