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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
    Crustacea
      Remipedia
      Branchiopoda
      Maxillopoda
      Malacostraca
        Eumalacostraca
          Eucarida
          Peracarida
            Isopoda
            Tanaidacea
            Amphipoda
              Hyperiidea
              Caprellidea
              Gammaridea
              Ingolfiellidea
              Corophiidea
                Caprellida
                Corophiida
                  Ampithoidae
                    Amphitholina
                    Ampithoe
                        Ampithoe fastidiosa
                        Ampithoe ferox
                        Ampithoe gammaroides
                        Ampithoe helleri
                        Ampithoe littorina
                        Ampithoe neglecta
                        Ampithoe pomboi
                        Ampithoe ramondi
                        Ampithoe riedli
                        Ampithoe rubricata
                        Ampithoe spuria
                        Ampithoe vaillanti
                        Ampithoe valida
                        Ampithoe longimana
                        Ampithoe africana
                        Ampithoe kergueleni
                        Ampithoe seticoxae
                        Ampithoe lafkui
                        Ampithoe laxipodus
                        Ampithoe longicarpus
                        Ampithoe mascarenensis
                        Ampithoe marcuzzii
                        Ampithoe akuolaka
                        Ampithoe aptos
                        Ampithoe auriculata
                        Ampithoe australiensis
                        Ampithoe boecki
                        Ampithoe cinerea
                        Ampithoe dalli
                        Ampithoe djakonovi
                        Ampithoe flindersi
                        Ampithoe grubriformis
                        Ampithoe guaspare
                        Ampithoe hinatore
                        Ampithoe kaneohe
                        Ampithoe kava
                        Ampithoe kuala
                        Ampithoe kulafi
                        Ampithoe kussakini
                        Ampithoe lacertosa
                        Ampithoe macrocornutus
                        Ampithoe maxillissius
                        Ampithoe megaloprotopus
                        Ampithoe platycera
                        Ampithoe plumulosa
                        Ampithoe poipu
                        Ampithoe pollex
                        Ampithoe rubricatoides
                        Ampithoe sectimana
                        Ampithoe senegalensis
                        Ampithoe serraticauda
                        Ampithoe tahue
                        Ampithoe tarasovi
                        Ampithoe vacoregue
                        Ampithoe volki
                        Ampithoe waialua
                        Ampithoe zachsi
                        Ampithoe boiana
                        Ampithoe brevipalma
                        Ampithoe caddi
                        Ampithoe cookana
                        Ampithoe dentimana
                        Ampithoe eremits
                        Ampithoe geographe
                        Ampithoe hiana
                        Ampithoe hirsutimanus
                        Ampithoe hyalos
                        Ampithoe katae
                        Ampithoe koreana
                        Ampithoe meganae
                        Ampithoe merimbula
                        Ampithoe ngana
                        Ampithoe ningaloo
                        Ampithoe nobrei
                        Ampithoe parakava
                        Ampithoe peronana
                        Ampithoe plumicornis
                        Ampithoe pseudongana
                        Ampithoe rachanoi
                        Ampithoe roly
                        Ampithoe rosema
                        Ampithoe rotunda
                        Ampithoe simulans
                        Ampithoe ulladulla
                        Ampithoe youngsanensis
                        Ampithoe panopla
                        Ampithoe inermis
                    Cymadusa
                    Pleonexes
                    Sunamphitoe
                    Amphitoe
                    Macropisthopus
                  Aoridae
                  Corophiidae
                  Unciolidae
              Neomegamphopidae
              Iciliidae
              Iulopididae
              Kuriidae
              Maxillipiidae
              Paracalliopiidae
              Pleioplateidae
              Podoprionidae
              Priscillinidae
              Priscomilitaridae
              Prolanceolidae
              Regaliidae
              Sinurothoidae
              Sternophysingidae
            Cumacea
            Thermosbaenacea
            Mysidacea
            Mysida
            Lophogastrida
            Anisopoda
        Hoplocarida
      Ostracoda
      Pentastomata
    Chelicerata
    Myriapoda
    Hexapoda
  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